Quotes From "The House Of The Spirits" By Isabel Allende

You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
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You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found. Isabel Allende
Just as when we come into the world, when we...
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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
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لقد عرف ÙƒÙÅف ÙÅموت ØŒ كما عرف ÙƒÙÅف ÙÅعÙÅØ´ Isabel Allende
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At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.. That's why my Grandmother Clara wrote in her notebooks, in order to see things in their true dimension and to defy her own poor memory. Isabel Allende
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Her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it. Isabel Allende
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…she did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously if He himself never had. Isabel Allende
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But why give a man something it's so hard to earn? In that respect women are really thick. They're the daughters of rigidity. They need a man to feel secure but they don't realize that the one thing they should be afraid of is men. They don't know how to run their lives. They have to sacrifice themselves for the sake of someone else. Whores are the worst, patron, believe me. They throw their lives away working for some pimp, smile when he beats them, feel proud when he's well dressed, with his gold teeth and rings on his fingers, and when he goes off and takes up with a woman half their age they forgive him everything because 'he's a man. . Isabel Allende
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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 the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation. Isabel Allende
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He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits. Isabel Allende