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Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.
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greed
honesty
community
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Isabel Allende |
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fa5948a
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Tenia la idea de que al poner nombre a los problemas, estos se materializan y ya no es posible ignorarlos; en cambio, si se mantienen en el limbo de las palabras no dichas, pueden desaparecer solos, con el transcurso del tiempo
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Isabel Allende |
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ee99e4b
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Tal ves temia que ese grandioso amor, que habia resistido tantas pruebas, no pudiera sobrevivir a la mas terrible de todas: la convivencia.
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Isabel Allende |
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f23e7f8
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A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.
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Isabel Allende |
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747ea03
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La vida no es una foto, en que uno ordena las cosas para que se vean bien y luego fija la imagen para la posteridad; es un proceso sucio, desordenado, rapido, lleno de imprevistos. Lo unico seguro es que todo cambia.
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Isabel Allende |
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a8e99c0
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l`nd shrW qwy jdan: ymsk ldmG wymzWq lqlb. hnk 'nw` kthyr@ mn l`nd, lkn 'sw'h hw `nd lHb.
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Isabel Allende |
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503fb57
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Nostalgia is my vice. Nostalgia is a melancholy, and slightly saccharine, sentiment, like tenderness
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Isabel Allende |
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29f2351
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era apenas la suma de dos soledades y de muchas ausencias.
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Isabel Allende |
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f88df0a
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Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
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Isabel Allende |
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e55979e
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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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Isabel Allende |
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1b14aba
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Hay mucha gente buena, Irina, pero es discreta. Los malos, en cambio, hacen mucho ruido, por eso se notan mas.
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maldad
humanidad
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Isabel Allende |
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b65e994
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My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.
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Isabel Allende |
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I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Little Sisters of Charity, could tolerate her for more than a few weeks, so the family has had to look after her. Believe me, there is nothing so insufferable as a saint, I wouldn't sic one on my worst enemy.
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religion
humor
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Isabel Allende |
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I strike the ground with the soles of my feet and life rises up my legs, spreads up my skeleton, takes possession of me, drives away distress and sweetens my memory. The world trembles.
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poetry-quotes
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Isabel Allende |
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Vamos a recorrer este camino juntos, paso a paso, dia a dia, con la mejor intencion. Eso es lo unico que podemos prometernos mutuamente.
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Isabel Allende |
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As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are transformed, and sometimes rise to the surface and sprout like strange plants from other worlds. What is the fertile humus of the subconscious composed of? Why are certain images converted into recurrent themes in nightmares or writing?
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Isabel Allende |
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1b11113
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m yuns~ ybdw k'nWh lm yHduth qT .
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Isabel Allende |
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Si fuera capaz de exteriorizar mis sentimientos, tal vez sufriria menos, pero se me quedan atorados adentro, como un inmenso bloque de hielo y pueden pasar anos antes que el hielo empiece a derretirse.
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Isabel Allende |
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fdb17db
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Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally.
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sins
human-nature
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Isabel Allende |
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5ddde22
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Tenia un pie en la ilusion obligada y otro en la realidad secreta
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Isabel Allende |
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What can we do with this happiness that appears for no obvious reason, the joy that needs no cause to exist?
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Isabel Allende |
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ce128fc
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Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of unknown things. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality
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Isabel Allende |
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As soon as the period of mourning for Dona Ester was over and the big house on the corner was finished, Esteban Trueba and Clara del Valle were married in a modest ceremony. Esteban gave his wife a set of diamond jewelry, which she thought beautiful. She packed it away in a shoe box and quickly forgot where she had put it. They spent their honeymoon in Italy and two days after they were on the boat. Esteban was as madly in love as an adoles..
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isabel allende |
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This is the kind of detail that is forbidden in literature; in a book, no one would dare combine a full moon with Frank Sinatra. The problem with fiction is that it must seem credible, while reality seldom is.
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Isabel Allende |
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I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist.
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wit
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Isabel Allende |
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lm 'kn '`rf b`d 'n lHzn l yzwl blkml 'bdan , w'nh ybq~ tHt ljld ; wmn dwnh mkn ly lywm 'n 'kwn nfsy , wlm stT`t lt`rf `l~ nfsy fy lmra@
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self
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Isabel Allende |
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n Hyty ttjsd Hyn 'rwyh wdhkrty tthbt blktb@; wm l 'SwGh fy klmt w'dwnh `l~ lwrq symHwh lzmn .
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Isabel Allende |
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e34c613
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Los hombres hacen lo que pueden, las mujeres hacen lo que los hombres no pueden.
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Isabel Allende |
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Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of death began to hover over her during that period, as a kind of higher order of lassitude in which she would not have to move the blood in her veins or the air in her lungs; her repose would be absolute- not to think, not to feel, not to be.
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suicide
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Isabel Allende |
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The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich soil but in stony land; the plant, with a mother's obstinacy, overcomes obstacles to thrust its roots deep into the ground and take advantage of every drop of water. That, my grandmother explained to me, is how flavors are concentrated in the grape.
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Isabel Allende |
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If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking so hard for a way to keep them alive, remembering them in the most minimal details, I have been changing them, adorning them with qualities they may not have had. I have given them a destiny much more complex than the ones they lived.
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Isabel Allende |
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that in itself age doesn't make anyone better or wiser, but only accentuates what they have always been.
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Isabel Allende |
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6720f8b
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klm t`lmt 'kthr ktshft km hy m`rftk qlyl@.
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Isabel Allende |
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lrjl yf`l m ystTy`h, wlmr'@ tf`l m l ystTy`h lrjl
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Isabel Allende |
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Las fotografias enganan al tiempo, suspendiendolo en un trozo de carton donde el alma queda bocabajo, decia
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Isabel Allende |
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El ardor de ese beso no los abandono en muchos dias y lleno de fantasmas delicados sus noches, dejando su recuerdo en la piel, como una quemadura. La alegria de ese encuentro los transportaba levitando por la calle, los impulsaba a reir sin causa aparente, los despertaba sobresaltados en la mitad de un sueno. Se tocaban los labios con las puntas de los dedos y evocaban exactamente la forma de la boca del otro.
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Isabel Allende |
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7ea3795
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At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.
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writing
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Isabel Allende |
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Nu suntem batrani pentru ca am implinit saptezeci. Incepem sa imbatranim din clipa nasterii, ne schimbam zi dupa zi, viata e o curgere continua. Evoluam. Singura deosebire este ca acum suntem ceva mai aproape de moarte. Si ce e rau in asta? Dragostea si prietenia nu imbatranesc.
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Isabel Allende |
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But why give a man something it's so hard to earn? In that respect women are really thick. They're the daughters of rigidity. They need a man to feel secure but they don't realize that the one thing they should be afraid of is men. They don't know how to run their lives. They have to sacrifice themselves for the sake of someone else. Whores are the worst, patron, believe me. They throw their lives away working for some pimp, smile when he b..
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men
women
mentality
rigidity
pimps
whores
women-and-men
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Isabel Allende |
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He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.
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Isabel Allende |
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16da0d8
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I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.
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story
suffering
writing
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Isabel Allende |
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kl wHd ykhtr drj@ llwn ky yHky qSWth lkhS@; w bwdWy 'n khtr lwDwH ldy'm lSwr@ mTbw`@ blbltyn .. lkn m mn shy fy qdry ymlk hdhh lkhSWy@ lmDyy'@ ;'`ysh byn SbGt bht@ w'lGz mkhfyW@ w `dm yqyn .. wllwn lmnsb lrwy@ Hyty ynTbq 'kthr m` lwn Swr@ Hy'l@ Swr@ "blsby" ."
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Isabel Allende |
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79fae22
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Es cosa de tiempo, ojo y corazon
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Isabel Allende |
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eadeb8b
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Lanzarme con otro libro es tan grave como enamorarme, un impulso alocado que exige dedicacion fanatica. Con cada uno, como ante un nuevo amor, me pregunto si me alcanzaran las fuerzas para escribirlo y si acaso semejante proyecto vale la pena: hay demasiadas paginas inutiles y demasiados amorios frustrados.
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love
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Isabel Allende |