Isabel Allende Quotes - Page 2

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• Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise my thoughts, to do research, to read and listen, to seek alternatives, to resolve old problems with new solutions, to argue logically. Above all, she taught me not to believe anything blindly, to doubt, and to question even what seemed irrefutably true, such as man's superiority over woman, or one race or social class over another.

  Isabel Allende

  Teacher, Believe, Men

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• if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?

  Isabel Allende

  Perfect, Imagination, Society

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• Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

  Isabel Allende

  Two, Silence, Noise

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• You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.

  Isabel Allende

  Love, Angel, Damnation

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• Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

  Isabel Allende

  Talent, Born, Discovering

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• We only have what we give.

  Isabel Allende

  Helping Others, Compassion, Giving

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• You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.

  Isabel Allende

  Collecting Things, Half, Firsts

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• Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.

  Isabel Allende

  Gratitude, Children, Unconditional Love

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• A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.

  Isabel Allende

  Women, Men, Doe

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• What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.

  Isabel Allende

  Stories, Answers

  "Tales of passion". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March, 2007.

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• Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.

  Isabel Allende

  Circles, Diversity, Brotherhood

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• When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.

  Isabel Allende

  Opportunity, Years, Scarcity

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• Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually she just shows up

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Muse, Shows

  "Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do". Book by Meredith Maran, 2013.

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• In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.

  Isabel Allende

  Strength, War, People

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• Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.

  Isabel Allende

  Running, Risk, Findings

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• I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.

  Isabel Allende

  Children, Book, People

  "Author Isabel Allende". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2010.

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• Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.

  Isabel Allende

  Chickens, Whole, Feathers

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• ...when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars

  Isabel Allende

  Stars, Language, Failing

  Isabel Allende (2016). “Eva Luna: A Novel”, p.244, Simon and Schuster

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• Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.

  Isabel Allende

  Reality, Dying, World

  Isabel Allende (2015). “The House of the Spirits: A Novel”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.

  Isabel Allende

  Sex, Couple, Romantic Love

  "The Lenny Interview: Isabel Allende". Interview with Collier Meyerson, www.lennyletter.com. January 15, 2016.

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• Sisters: talk to each other, be connected and informed, form women's circles, share your stories, work together, and take risks. Together we are invincible.

  Isabel Allende

  Strong Women, Circles, Risk

  "Isabel Allende, Loung Ung and the Power of Memoir" by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2008.

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• Real soup is to the body what peace is to the soul.

  Isabel Allende

  Real, Soul, Body

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• Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.

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  Photography, Soul, Pieces

  Isabel Allende (2016). “Of Love and Shadows: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.

  Isabel Allende

  Young, Uninformed, Explanation

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• Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Worry, Making Love

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