Best quotes by Isabel Allende on Life

Checkout quotes by Isabel Allende on Life

• ‟ I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

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• ‟ My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.

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• ‟ I have not changed; I am still the same girl I was fifty years ago and the same young woman I was in the seventies. I still lust for life, I am still ferociously independent, I still crave justice, and I fall madly in love easily.

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• ‟ We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

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• ‟ I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.

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• ‟ I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in the U.S. I have had to leave everything behind and start anew several times, and I have lost most of my extended family.

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• ‟ A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.

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• ‟ Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.

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• ‟ If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

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• ‟ 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 opera where everybody is indoors, not working and living off their emotions.

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• ‟ My mother didn't want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me to be protected and safe, but my life never was.

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