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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 56e8e00 | know what helps most in misfortune, Irina? To talk. Nobody can go around in this world all alone. Why do you think I set up the pain clinic? Because shared pain is more bearable. The clinic is useful for the patients but is even more useful to me. We all have demons in the dark recesses of our soul, but if we bring them out into the light, they grow smaller and weaker, they fall silent and eventually leave us in peace." Irina tried to free .. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 24dcb21 | The simple recipe for success that Mendel had instilled in his children from the cradle on consisted in never complaining, never asking for anything, striving to be the best in everything you do, and never trusting anyone. Alma had to carry this heavy weight on her back for several decades, until love helped her shed some of it. Her stoic attitude contributed to the air of mystery surrounding her, long before she had any secrets to keep. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 1ebedcf | el dolor es inevitable en el paso por esta vida, pero dicen que casi siempre es tolerable si no se le opone resistencia y no se agregan miedo y angustia. | Isabel Allende | ||
| c12b124 | La felicidad es jabonosa, se escurre entre los dedos, pero a los problemas uno puede aferrarse, tienen asidero, son asperos, duros. | Isabel Allende | ||
| a1043e1 | How would I run with my bad leg? And what would become of the people who need my care? Besides, it doesn't mean anything for me to be free and everyone else slaves," the healer answered. Tete hadn't thought of that, and it kept buzzing around her brain like a bottlefly. She talked about it with her godmother many times, but she was never able to accept the idea that her freedom was irreparably bound to that of the other slaves." | Isabel Allende | ||
| 359cbaf | 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. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 3d1982d | there was only one aristocracy, that of decency, and that this was not inherited or bought with money or titles, but was only gained through good deeds. | Isabel Allende | ||
| b9ea600 | Habia tenido que tejer el amor con recuerdos... | Isabel Allende | ||
| d1206a2 | Memory is fragile and capricious; each of us remembers and forgets according to what is convenient. The past is a notebook with many leaves on which we jot down our lives with ink that changes according to our state of mind. | Isabel Allende | ||
| eb3e7ea | I'm fine here, Lenny. I'm discovering who I am without all my ornaments and accessories. It's quite a slow process, but a very useful one. Everybody ought to do the same at the end of their life. If I had any self-discipline I would beat my grandson to it and write my own memoirs. I have time, freedom, and silence, the three things I never had amidst all the noise of my earlier life. I'm preparing to die." "That won't" | Isabel Allende | ||
| 355b026 | Mario no tenia humor para la chabacaneria y habia superado hacia anos cualquier tendencia a la promiscuidad | Isabel Allende | ||
| a1c805c | Life is long, and the world is large. It is all a question of taking a chance. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 47c45b3 | He was so unfamiliar with this peaceful sense of happiness he did not even recognize it. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 4df8f1b | A veces se preguntaba si los indios no estaban mejor antes, cuando eran duenos de California y vivian a su manera, con sus costumbres y sus dioses, pero enseguida se persignaba y pedia perdon a Dios por tamana herejia. <>, suspiraba, arrepentido. | diego-de-la-vega el-zorro español isabel-allende mendoza padre-mendoza spanish zorro | Isabel Allende | |
| b95d716 | The girl you were died; the potion of death was what all of us women swallow sooner or later. Have you noticed how at puberty the Amazon-like energy we are born with fades and we turn into doubt-filled creatures with clipped wings? The woman left trapped in the silo is also you, a prisoner of the restrictions of adult life. The female condition is a disgrace, Isabel, it's like having rocks tied to your ankles so you can't fly. | Isabel Allende | ||
| f50ab06 | The lack of a father leaves a hole in a woman's heart, Lucia. A girl needs to feel she is protected; she needs masculine energy to develop trust in men and later to be able to give herself in love. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 6bc81d0 | They taught using an Italian system of experimental education in which the students did whatever the fuck we wanted. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 0e0fc2a | Preguntate que sientes y que te niegas a sentir. | el-juego-de-ripper feelings love ripper sentimientos | Isabel Allende | |
| 5991124 | We're not old because we are seventy. We start to grow old as soon as we are born, we change every day, life is a continuous state of flux. We evolve. The only difference is that now we are a little closer to death. What's so bad about that? Love and friendship do not age. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 63831d8 | The Germans are not a race of psychopaths, Alma. They're normal people like you and me, but with fanaticism, power, and impunity, anyone can turn into a monster, like the SS at Auschwitz," he told his sister. "Do you think that, given the opportunity, you'd also behave like a monster, Samuel?" "I don't think it, Alma, I know it. I've been a soldier all my life. I've been to war. I've interrogated prisoners, a large number of them. But I ass.. | Isabel Allende | ||
| db209cf | En cada ocasion debia acomodar su estado de animo a las exigencias del momento, pero al terminar la jornada, en el silencio de su habitacion, pasaba revista a los acontecimientos y concluia que en medio del diario desafio lo mas conveniente era no pensar demasiado para evitar que el miedo o la ira lo paralizaran. | isabel-allende | Isabel Allende | |
| a242160 | I had a serious library at my disposal, because my Popo believed that culture entered by osmosis and it was better to start early, but my favorite books were fairy tales. | reading | Isabel Allende | |
| b9d2afc | On that long journey she wept all the tears stored in her soul, leaving none in reserve for later sorrows. | Isabel Allende | ||
| d11780a | If women have influence, it is only--and then only sometimes--within their home. Men control all the political and economic power, the culture and customs; they proclaim the laws and apply them as they wish, and when social pressures and the legal apparatus are not sufficient to subdue the most rebellious women, the Church steps in with its incontestable patriarchal seal. What is unforgivable, though, is that it is women who perpetuate and .. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 4303cc0 | Ella lo llamo con una sonrisa coqueta, ultimo requisito para concluir que esa joven podia robarle hasta los pensamientos. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 5802bd1 | Esta es la historia de una mujer y de un hombre que se amaron en plenitud, salvandose asi de una existencia vulgar. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 88a3e23 | When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves, he feels like a prince. | Isabel Allende | ||
| f37e459 | Su vida estaba hecha de ruinas encadenadas sin variantes, salvo aquellas marcadas por las estaciones. Solo existia trabajo y cansancio para ella | Isabel Allende | ||
| fa0bd74 | Al necesitado no se le pregunta quien es ni de donde viene, Richard. Todos somos iguales en la desgracia>> | Isabel Allende | ||
| b6b9faa | Francisco encontro en esos sencillos elementos un profundo sentido estetico y decidio que mas tarde tomaria algunas fotografias para su coleccion. Nunca pudo hacerlo | Isabel Allende | ||
| 8f28454 | Tal vez la vejez es otro comienzo, tal vez se pueda volver al tiempo magico de la infancia, ese tiempo anterior al pensamiento lineal y a los prejuicios, cuando percibia el universo con los sentidos exaltados de un demente y era libre para creer lo increible y explorar mundos que despues, en la epoca de la razon, desaparecieron. | Isabel Allende | ||
| fe420db | The holy word is story, and story is the holy word. | scripture story | Yann Martel | |
| a39104f | I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness | Yann Martel | ||
| f921dfa | And I survived because I made a point of forgetting. | Yann Martel | ||
| 4029871 | Zawsze znajda sie tacy, ktorzy wezma na siebie obowiazek obrony Boga, jakby Najwyzsza Istota czy podstawa wszelkiego bytu byla czyms slabym i wymagajacym wsparcia. Ludzie ci przechodza obok wdowy przezartej tradem i zebrzacej o kilka pais, mijajac obojetnie koczujace na ulicy dzieci w lachmanach i mysla sobie:"Tak to juz jest na swiecie". Ale jesli wyczuja najlzejsze uchybienie wobec Boga, to calkiem inna sprawa. Czerwienieja na twarzy, dos.. | Yann Martel | ||
| a99c7c3 | It was frightening, the extent to which a full belly made for a good mood. | Yann Martel | ||
| d7b660b | For fear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forg.. | fear strength-and-courage | Yann Martel | |
| 118592b | We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more--there is no greater relationship. | self | Yann Martel | |
| 04dc436 | Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven days. Even on a symbolic level, that's creation in a frenzy. | Yann Martel | ||
| 6df3469 | What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape. For example - I wonder - could you tell my jumbled story in exactly one hundred chapters, not one more, not one less? I'll tell you, that's one thing I have about my nickname, the way the number runs on forever. It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can yo.. | Yann Martel | ||
| 8a53844 | Seperti perpustakaan umum, atau museum, kebun binatang bertujuan melayani bidang pendidikan populer serta ilmu pengetahuan. | perpustakaan | Yann Martel | |
| 637e39e | Cai quan trong o doi la phai ket thuc moi thu cho chin chu. Co the ta moi yen tam ma di duoc. Neu khong thi luc nao trong ta cung day nhung loi muon noi ma chang bao gio noi, va long ta se nang triu an han. | Yann Martel | ||
| c325eb5 | A plain is what a mountain aims to be: the closest you can come to being in outer space while yet having your feet on this planet. | grounded oneness | Yann Martel | |
| 92e6ca8 | Instead of coconut yam kootu, why not boiled beef tongue with a mustard sauce?" "That sounds non-veg." | Yann Martel |