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Living Quotes by Isabel Allende
- I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.
- I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each…
- They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.
- The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier…
- Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks like a soap…
- I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time.
- The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now, when I am…
More Living Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat… — Joe Arpaio
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov