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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| df304bd | La riqueza envilece el alma, complica la existencia y engendra infelicidad, sostenia. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 8904393 | Nat me ayudo a aceptar el hecho de que existen fuerzas mas poderosas que mi voluntad, fuerzas incluso mas poderosas que el amor. | fuerza voluntad | Isabel Allende | |
| 69d8471 | Eso pasa con la edad: las historias del pasado cobran vida y se nos pegan en la piel. | historias vejez | Isabel Allende | |
| 2e71dd6 | Con la edad se adquiere cierta humildad, Alexander. Mientras mas anos cumplo, mas ignorante me siento. Solo los jovenes tienen explicacion para todo. A tu edad se puede ser arrogante y no importa mucho hacer el ridiculo --replico ella secamente. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 324cf37 | un estropicio de obreros haciendo hoyos en el pavimento, quitando arboles para pones postes, quitando postes para poner edificios, quitando edificios para plantar arboles. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 5e37085 | Francisco l'attrasse a se e le cerco le labbra. Fu un bacio casto, tiepido, lieve tuttavia ebbe l'effetto di una scossa tellurica nei loro sensi. Entrambi percepirono la pelle dell'altro prima mai cosi precisa e vicina, la pressione delle loro mani, l'intimita di un contatto anelato fin dagli inizi del tempo. Li invase un calore palpitante nelle ossa nelle vene nell'anima, qualcosa che non conoscevano o che avevano del tutto scordato, perch.. | love lovers sex | Isabel Allende | |
| 3cebae2 | He missed his venerable master, who had marked him forever with a thirst for knowledge as persistent as the drunk's thirst for alcohol or the ambitious man's thirst for power. He no longer had his mentor's library or his inexhaustible fount of experience. | thirst | Isabel Allende | |
| 22d60fe | la fatuidad es privilegio de ignorantes; el sabio es humilde porque sabe cuan poco sabe | Isabel Allende | ||
| 6d8e1c0 | Esteban abrio la puerta y necesito algunos segundos para ver en la oscuridad. El olor a medicamentos y podredumbre le golpeo la cara un olor dulzon de sudor, humedad, encierro y algo que al principio no identifico, pero que pronto se le adhirio como una peste: el olor de la carne en descomposicion. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 39b6484 | lktb@ rHl@ l~ khwf lw`y `tm@ w t'ml bTy , nny 'ktb mtlms@ fy lSmt , w'ktshf fy 'thn lTryq 'jz mn lHqyq@ , ntf SGyr@ mn lzjj tts` lh rH@ lyd wtbrr mrwry fy hdhh ldny . | Isabel Allende | ||
| 8eadd36 | Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, | Isabel Allende | ||
| 580e33c | He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits. | politics | Isabel Allende | |
| 0173914 | Supongo que de ese sentimiento de soledad nacen las preguntas que impulsan a escribir, | Isabel Allende | ||
| 4030988 | Ines Suarez (1507-1580), espanola, nacida en Plasencia, viajo al Nuevo Mundo en 1537 y participo en la conquista de Chile y la fundacion de la ciudad de Santiago. Tuvo gran influencia politica y poder economico. Las hazanas de Ines Suarez, mencionadas por los cronistas de su epoca, fueron casi olvidadas por los historiadores durante mas de cuatrocientos anos. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 5d7d2a3 | Estas largas separaciones son peligrosas, el amor resbala por arenas inciertas. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 8b2ac2c | el dolor es un camino solitario. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 57cc201 | los mismos hombres que en la vida cotidiana parecen mansos, al contar con impunidad y un buen pretexto suelen convertirse en fieras sanguinarias. | Isabel Allende | ||
| ffc9708 | Time moves so slowly. Or perhaps it doesn't move at all and it is we who pass through it. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 8703c4c | I called him Grandfather, because according to him you do not have to be of the same blood or same tribe to be a member of the same family, but in truth I should have called him Maman. He was the only mother I ever knew. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 3d69c36 | I am frightened. I have known fear before, but there was always an escape; even during the terror of the military coup there was the salvation of exile. Now I am in a blind alley with all doors closed to hope, and I don't know how to handle so much fear. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 79d8f55 | There was an army of hundreds of thousands of spirits fighting alongside the blacks, and that was why finally the whites were defeated. Everyone is in agreement about that, even the French soldiers, who felt the spirits' fury. Maitre Valmorain, who did not believe in anything he did not understand, and as he understood very little believed in nothing, was also convinced that the dead aided the rebels. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 30b5f5a | Walking and walking across the world he will gradually find consolation, and one day, when he is too fatigued to take another step, he will realize that he cannot escape sorrow, he will have to tame it, so it doesn't harass him. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 9d44c54 | l ykfyn~ lmTr lkl hdhh ldmw`! | Isabel Allende | ||
| 49bed8a | I must not linger on details, daughter, because if we dally, this account may be left unfinished, and no one wants to read hundreds of quartos only to find that the story has no clear ending. | Isabel Allende | ||
| f11fcdd | El funcionario publico debe comprender desde su primer dia en la oficina que cualquier amago de iniciativa sera el fin de su carrera, porque no esta alli para hacer merito, sino para alcanzar dignamente su nivel de incompetencia. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 13aca3b | His wife, Leanne, who came to his waist, looked like an undernourished adolescent with the face of a fly, but her fragility was deceptive: she had given birth to six male children and was expecting the seventh. She knew it would be male because God was determined to test her patience. | Isabel Allende | ||
| cc761de | Tell Larry I'm not going to the reception, and that he can't count on me for anything for the rest of my life." Her emphatic tone brooked no argument. Her daughter-in-law closed the door silently and went to give her husband the message." | Isabel Allende | ||
| f757f04 | Caci nimeni nu vrea sa isi sfarseasca viata cu un trecut banal. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 08413bd | ndm 'nZr llwr ybdw ly wk'nny bTl@ qS@ mylwdrmy@, 'm lan blmqbl, fqd twqf kl shy, lm y`d hnk m 'rwyh, flHDr lh Hd@ lm's@ lfZ@ | Isabel Allende | ||
| eb9ffd8 | Todos somos heroes de nuestra propia historia. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 66d47d0 | no debia temer a los muertos, sino a los vivos, | Isabel Allende | ||
| c5b7922 | La humanidad debe vivir en un mundo unido, donde se mezclen las razas, lenguas, costumbres y suenos de todos los hombres. El nacionalismo repugna a la razon. En nada beneficia a los pueblos. Solo sirve para que en su nombre se cometan los peores abusos. | Isabel Allende | ||
| b3c97a2 | El heroismo es una ocupacion mal remunerada, que a menudo conduce a un fin prematuro, por eso atrae a personas fanaticas o con una malsana fascinacion por la muerte. Existen muy pocos heroes de corazon romantico y de sangre liviana. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 7c0e98b | Si una mujer ofrece la mejilla para que su novio no la bese en la boca, hasta un ciego puede ver que ya no siente amor. | Isabel Allende | ||
| c6f742a | Tampoco entendian que los extranjeros plantaran una bandera en el suelo, marcaran lineas imaginarias, lo declararan de su propiedad y se ofendieran si alguien entraba persiguiendo a un venado. La idea de poseer la tierra les resultaba tan inverosimil como la de repartirse el mar. | Isabel Allende | ||
| d30808d | Esta violencia es el resultado de una guerra perpetua contra los pobres. | Isabel Allende | ||
| bbb18cc | The Spanish authorities attributed La Perouse's opinions to the regrettable fact that the man was French, but his writings made a profound impression on Padre Mendoza. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 913d5a8 | Her stoic attitude contributed to the air of mystery surrounding her, long before she had any secrets to keep. | Isabel Allende | ||
| 69f783f | in the end they grew tired of making all these efforts to stay young and active, and gave in to the temptation of simply resting. I | Isabel Allende | ||
| 61adca1 | What's the worst thing about growing old?" she would ask them. They never thought about their age, was a common reply; they had once been adolescents, then they were thirty, fifty, sixty, and never gave it a thought, so why should they do so now?" | Isabel Allende | ||
| a4f0b8f | Full belly, happy heart," was the favorite saying of Padre Mendoza, who had been obsessed with good nutrition ever since he'd heard of sailors suffering from scurvy when a lemon could have prevented their agony." | Isabel Allende | ||
| e3e36a9 | 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. | Isabel Allende | ||
| e13f75b | He's a woman!" he shouted, horrified. Padre Mendoza and the others came running up, only to stand and stare, mute with amazement, at the virginal breasts of the warrior. "It's going to be much more difficult to kill him now," Padre Mendoza sighed finally." | Isabel Allende | ||
| 41739e3 | En la dimension del cosmos y en el trayecto de la historia somos insignificantes, despues de nuestra muerte todo sigue igual, como si jamas hubieramos existido, en la medida de nuestra precaria humanidad tu, Paula, eres para mi mas importante que mi propia vida y que la suma de casi todas las vidas ajenas. | importante vida | Isabel Allende |