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You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
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Baby
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Littles
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In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.
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Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
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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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Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
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I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.
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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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