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Only Quotes by Isabel Allende
- We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
- I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.
- I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
- I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on…
- My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell…
- The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be…
- 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 have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even…
- We only have what we give.
- The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
- She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well…
- 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…
- She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through…
- At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back…
- He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.
- Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
- You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.
- She never imagined a scenario in which her love was not returned with the same depth of feeling, for to her it was impossible to…
- Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in…
- Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone
- The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.
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