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Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
Reflection
Reader
Journey
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Mesmerizing
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Exile
Poetic
Inward

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I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.
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I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.
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In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.
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How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
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I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way, and has enabled me to maintain my family and educate my children and grandchildren, as well as to create a Foundation to empower women and girls.
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Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
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My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.
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I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you’re from or what you did before.
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.
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There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.
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We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.
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Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
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I think the spirit survives when we die, and nothing is wasted in nature and just as our material body disintegrates and becomes something else in the soil. The spirit becomes something else, reunites with a spiritual force that is out there in the universe. Not as individuals but as part of this spirituality.
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And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.
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You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.
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It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
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We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.
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