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ffbb6c4
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Barrabas came to us by the sea.
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Isabel Allende |
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e92fb56
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No existe luz sin sombra, tal como no existe dicha sin dolor.
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Isabel Allende |
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df47d90
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La orice varsta trebuie sa ai un scop in viata, asa se vindeca multe rele.
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Isabel Allende |
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2ffd9c5
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Me resulta complicado escribir sobre mi vida, porque no se cuanto recuerdo y cuanto es producto de mi imaginacion;la estricta verdad puede ser tediosa y por eso, sin darme ni cuenta, la cambio o la exagero, pero me he propuesto corregir ese defecto y mentir lo menos posible en el futuro.
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mentira
verdad
sincerity
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Isabel Allende |
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ad5aae5
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She treated him with the casual kindness usually reserved for other people's pets.
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Isabel Allende |
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46c71f2
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Enfrenta los obstaculos a medida que se presenten, no pierdas energia temiendo lo que pueda haber en el futuro
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Isabel Allende |
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b37d8c8
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Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence, including insecurities that do not torment normal people, only chronic nonconformists, many of whom end up as writers after having failed in other undertakings.
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Isabel Allende |
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But that's how nostalgia is: a slow dance in a large circle. Memories don't organize themselves chronologically, they're like smoke, changing, ephemeral, and if they're not written down they fade into oblivion.
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Isabel Allende |
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She entered the place of her dreams along a much traveled path and returned treading very carefully in order not to shatter the tenuous visions against the harsh light of consciousness.
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waking
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Isabel Allende |
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lys hnk mn yrwqh qr@ my't lSfHt lyjd 'n lqS@ l tnthy nhy@ wDH@
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reading
nobody
novel
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Isabel Allende |
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44d374d
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Lo puedo leer en tus ojos, vienes de una noche de amor.
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Isabel Allende |
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She had been born to cradle other people's children, wear their hand-me-down clothing, eat their leftovers, live on borrowed happiness and grief, grow old beneath other people's roofs, die one day in her miserable little room in the far courtyard in a bed that did not belong to her, and be buried in a common grave in the public cemetery.
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Isabel Allende |
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Sometimes I have these premonitions and I don't forget them, so I will be prepared when they happen.
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premonition
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Isabel Allende |
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hkdh hw lmnf~, yqdhf blns m` lryH l'rb` wySbH mn lS`b b`d dhlk lmW shml lmtfrqyn.
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Isabel Allende |
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1e706c7
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lqd Sr ldyn trykh mshtrk, ymknn lnZr l~ lmD wrwy@ 'Hdth l'ym lty `shnh m`an, wHsb l'Hzn w l'frH, hkdh ySn` lHb, dwn tsr`, wywman bywm
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Isabel Allende |
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ca053cc
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El mundo es violento y predatorio, regido por la ley implacable de los mas fuertes. La seleccion de la especie no ha servido para que florezca la inteligencia o evolucione el espiritu. A la primera oportunidad nos destrozamos unos a otros como ratas prisioneras en una caja demasiado estrecha.
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Isabel Allende |
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e85876c
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Los hijos, como los libros, son viajes al interior de una misma en los cuales el cuerpo, la mente y el alma cambian de direccion, se vuelven hacia el centro mismo de la existencia.
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Isabel Allende |
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However, in those last months of riding across the golden landscape of California she felt she was flying free, like a condor. She was awakened one morning by the whinnying of her horse with the full light of dawn in her face, surrounded by tall sequoias that, like centenary guards, had watched over her sleep, by gentle hills, and, far in the distance, purple mountaintops; at that moment she was filled with an atavistic happiness that was e..
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Isabel Allende |
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3d301b8
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'Hynan, `l~ lmr 'n ykwn mst`dan ll`ysh klklb, l'n tklyf lHy@ bhZ@ jdan.
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Isabel Allende |
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ywm akhr mn lntZr, wywm ynqS mn l'ml. ywm akhr mn lSmt, wywm 'ql mn lHy@. lmwt ymDy Tlyqan fy lmmrt wmhmty mshGlth Ht~ l yjd lTryq l~ bbk.
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Isabel Allende |
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321268e
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lqd mDyt Twl Hyty mjdhf@ b`ks tyr lnhr bjhd wHshy, w'n lan mt`b@, 'ryd 'n 'ltf nSf dwr@ w'trk ltyr yHmlny brfq l~ lbHr.
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Isabel Allende |
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1341c86
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lwfr@ fy mtnwl lyd, dh 'Hsn lmr l`thwr `lyh.
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Isabel Allende |
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d5ba984
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We are all born happy. Life gets us dirty along the way, but we can clean it up. Happiness is not exuberant or noisy, like pleasure or joy; it's silent, tranquil, and gentle; it's a feeling of satisfaction inside that begins with self-love. You need to love yourself as I do, as all those who know you do, especially Alma's grandson.
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Isabel Allende |
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39afc4c
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Writing is like riding a bicycle: you don't forget how, even if you go for years without doing it.
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Isabel Allende |
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22c4672
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She went by the name of Belisa Crepusculario, not because she'd been born with it or baptized it, but because she herself had searched until she found the poetry of 'beauty' and 'twilight' and cloaked herself in it. She made her living selling words.
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Isabel Allende |
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Todos tenemos demonios en los rincones oscuros del alma, pero si los sacamos a la luz, los demonios se achican, se debilitan, se callan y al fin nos dejan en paz.
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Isabel Allende |
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db96485
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Cada uno escoge el tono para contar su propia historia; quisiera optar por la claridad durable de una impresion en platino, pero nada en mi destino posee esa luminosa cualidad. Vivo entre difusos matices, velados misterios, incertidumbres; el tono para contar mi vida se ajusta mas al de un retrato en sepia...
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Isabel Allende |
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fy hdhh i lHaya@ l ntwjWh l~ 'y W makan, mahm 'sr`n, bal nmDy, khuTwa@ f khuTwa@, naHw lmawt .
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Isabel Allende |
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l 'jd fy nfsy `ywban sw~ kwny mr'@ , whdhh tbdw jrym@ kfy@ . fnHn lmthmt bshbq lrjl . wlkn , 'lyst lkhTyy'@ mn msw'wly@ mn yrtkbh ? flmdh `lyW 'n 'df` thmn khTy lakhryn ?
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women
novel
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Isabel Allende |
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046c4a1
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I especially like your autumn trees, gracefully letting their leaves fall. That is how I would like to shed my own leaves in this autumn of life, easily and elegantly. Why be so attached to what we are bound to lose anyway? I suppose I mean youth, which has been so present in our conversations.
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Isabel Allende |
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4da2ccb
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The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.
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mind
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Isabel Allende |
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Hay grandeza y dignidad en la tragedia, por eso es fuente de inspiracion, pero no quiero tragedia, por inmortal que sea, quiero una dicha sin bulla, intima y muy discreta, para no provocar los celos de los dioses, siempre tan vengativos...
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relationships
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Isabel Allende |
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3e4e6ee
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Her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it.
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reading
freadom
intellectual-freedom
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Isabel Allende |
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y quien diga que todo fuego se apaga solo tarde o temprano, se equivoca: hay pasiones que son incendios hasta que las ahoga el destino de un zarpazo y aun asi quedan brasas calientes listas para arder apenas se les da oxigeno.
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separació
pasión
destino
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Isabel Allende |
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4b8a227
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Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding with God while everyone else must pass through the priestly bureaucracy.
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Isabel Allende |
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The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer, who led me back through several incarnations. It wasn't easy to return to the present, however, since my friend hadn't reached that part of the course, but the experiment was well worth the effort because I discovered that in former lives I was not Genghis Khan, as my mother believes.
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Isabel Allende |
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a52f816
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He knew that her body was his to engage in all the acrobatics he had learned in the books he kept hidden in a corner of his library, but with Clara even the most abominable contortions were like the thrashings of a newborn; it was impossible to spice them up with the salt of evil or the pepper of submission.
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Isabel Allende |
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b0c4132
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The advantage of being lovers is that we have to work hard at our relationship, because everything conspires to drive us apart. Our decision to be together has to be renewed again and again; that keeps us on our toes.
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Isabel Allende |
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865014d
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Asi te recuerdo, en calma
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Isabel Allende |
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b8d526e
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'kthr m ykhyfny fy lshykhwkh@ lys lwHd@ , wnm ltb`y@
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older
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Isabel Allende |
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5127953
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hl stmwt Tflty? - l '`rf `n hdh, lknWh st`ny kthyran, l shkW `ndy bdhlk. -mldhy bh? - Srr `l~ lHb. whw shrW qwyW. lshkW 'nh trkt lnfdh@ mftwH@ fy llyl@ lSfy@ wdkhl fy jsdh 'thn nwmh. lywjd sHr DdW hdh.
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Isabel Allende |
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0544f26
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Esos desaires no me quitan el sueno: no tengo que agradar a todo el mundo, solo a quienes en verdad me importan, que no son muchos.
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Isabel Allende |
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f232c7a
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If what you want is the effect of painting, then paint, Aurora. If what you want is truth, learn to use your camera," he would say again and again"
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Isabel Allende |
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f989989
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La discusion se prolongaba y ambos se perdian en una oratoria confusa que los dejaba agotados, acusandose mutuamente de ser mas testarudos que una mula, pero al final se daban las buenas noches con un beso y quedaban ambos con la sensacion de que el otro era un ser maravilloso.
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Isabel Allende |