Best Quotes by Isabel Allende (Top 10)
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Write what should not be forgotten.
Isabel Allende
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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
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For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.
Isabel Allende
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There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.
Isabel Allende
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Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.
Isabel Allende
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A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.
Isabel Allende
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You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.
Isabel Allende
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We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
Isabel Allende
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Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
Isabel Allende
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
Isabel Allende
More Isabel Allende Quotes
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The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear . . .
Isabel Allende
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And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
Isabel Allende
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You only have what you give. It's by spending yourself that you become rich.
Isabel Allende
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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
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As my 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, indelible, but I'm not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What's done is done; I have to look ahead.
Isabel Allende
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I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.
Isabel Allende
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
Isabel Allende
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Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.
Isabel Allende