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“Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.”

“He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.”

“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…”

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

“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.”

“If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving…”

Isabel Allende book Paula

Source: Paula

“Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.”

Isabel Allende book Portrait in Sepia

Source: Portrait in Sepia

“And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.”

Isabel Allende book Inés of My Soul

Source: Inés of My Soul

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

Isabel Allende book Paula

Source: Paula

“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 and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.”

Isabel Allende book Eva Luna

Source: Eva Luna

“… when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars”

Isabel Allende book Eva Luna

Source: Eva Luna

“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 to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.”

Isabel Allende book Paula

Source: Paula

“Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.”

Isabel Allende book The House of the Spirits

Source: The House of the Spirits

“Writing is a constant exercise in longing.”

“He realized… that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.”

Isabel Allende book Zorro

Source: Zorro

“Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega?
-No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.”

Isabel Allende book Zorro

Source: Zorro

“I need to remember to overcome.”

“… a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.”

“Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.”

“Happiness is pure kitsch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.”

Isabel Allende book La somma dei giorni

Source: La suma de los días