Here are the best quotes from Isabel Allende, a Chilean writer who has sold more than 70 million books worldwide and whose best-known works are La casa de los espíritus, Cuentos de Eva Luna, El bosque de los pygmies, El zorro: the legend begins, among others.
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-The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
-Write what should not be forgotten.
-Before conquering the mountain, you must learn to overcome your fear.
-You don't need talent to be an artist, you only need courage.
-A novel is achieved with hard work, the story with inspiration.
-Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.
-Each book is a message thrown in a bottle into the sea with the hope that it will reach another shore.
-I realized that writing about happiness is useless, without suffering there is no story.
-Face obstacles as they arise, don't waste energy fearing what may be in the future.
-There is no light without shadow, and there is no happiness without pain.
-I don't have to please everyone, only those who really matter to me, which aren't many.
-First love is like measles, it always leaves a scar.
-Old age is the best time to be and do what you want.
-The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
-There is no death. People only die when we forget about them.
-We only have what we give.
-Fear is inevitable, I have to accept it, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.
-You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
-A man does what he can, a woman does what a man cannot.
-Maybe we are in this world to seek love, find it and lose it, over and over again. With each love, we are born again, and with each love that ends we pick up a new wound. I am covered in proud scars.
-You are the narrator of your own life and you can create your own legend, or not.
-Writing is a process, a journey in memory and soul.
-I just had to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger into desire. How kind is love; forgive everything.
-The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what seems natural to others, and an irresistible tendency to express opinions that nobody wants to hear.
-We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside, which arises when life puts us to the test.
-I am not one of those women who trips twice on the same stone.
-Silence before birth, silence after death: life is nothing more than noise between two unfathomable silences.
-True friendship resists time, distance and silence.
-When all else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars.
-He realized that the strongest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that sycophants tend to be vicious.
-A fixation is very stubborn: it penetrates the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.
-The photography and writing are an attempt to capture the moments before they vanish.
-Be careful what you ask of heaven, it could be granted.
-Love makes us good. It does not matter who we love, it does not matter to be reciprocated or if the relationship is long-lasting. The experience of loving is enough, that transforms us.
-It is easy to judge others when one has not suffered that experience.
-My worst defect is that I tell secrets, mine and everyone else's.
-Reading is like looking through several windows that open onto an infinite landscape. For me, life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straitjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.
-That night I believed that I had lost forever the ability to fall in love, that I could never laugh or pursue an illusion. But it is never a long time again.
-I had the intention of swallowing the world and lived crushed by reality.
-Happiness is not exuberant or boisterous, like pleasure or joy. It is silent, calm, soft, it is an internal state of satisfaction that begins with loving yourself.
-How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek the truth for yourself.
-There is room in the human heart for all divinities.
-Remember that everyone else is more afraid than you.
-The value is a virtue appreciated in a man but considered as a defect in our gender. Brave women are a threat to a world that is poorly balanced in favor of men.
-Life is a tapestry that is embroidered day by day with threads of many colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all threads work.
-I have no right to win, but to improve the deal.
-The mind is much more interesting than the body.
-Selective memory to remember the good. Logical prudence not to ruin the present, and defiant optimism to face the future.
-I learned early on that when emigrating you lose the crutches that have served as a support until then, you have to start from scratch, because the past is erased at a stroke and nobody cares where you come from or what you have done before.
-Nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies and omissions.
-My father says that fear is good. It is the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes you can't avoid danger, and then you have to forget about being afraid.
-Write honestly and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they will hate you anyway.
-I suspect that everything that happened is not fortuitous, but corresponds to a destiny drawn before my birth.
-What is forgotten is as if it never happened.
-You are my angel and my condemnation. In your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descend to hell.
-Each time the wound was deeper, the pain was more private.
-Nothing changes, we humans repeat the same sins over and over again, eternally.
-Promise me that you will always love yourself as I love you.
-She did not believe that the world was a valley of tears, but a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously.
-Age, by itself, does not make anyone better or wiser, it only accentuates what each one has always been.
-I have seen many people who speak without thinking, without realizing that speaking is also being. The word and the gesture are the thought of man. We must not speak without reason.
-If I were able to express my feelings, maybe I would suffer less, but they get stuck inside me, like a huge block of ice and it may take years before the ice starts to melt.
-The nations must be governed by a council of wise men who must answer to the people for their actions.
-I was a romantic and sentimental creature, with a tendency to loneliness.
-Nostalgia is my vice. It is a melancholy feeling, and slightly sugary, like tenderness.
-I had one foot in the forced illusion and the other in the secret reality.
-We have lost our sense of ethics. We live in a world of smallness, of gratification without happiness, and of meaningless actions.
-If nothing hurts, that means I woke up dead.
-It was not a pain of numb muscles, but of accumulated sadness and abandonment.
-Writing is like riding a bicycle: we do not forget it, even if you spend years without doing it.
-Life is not a photo, in which one arranges things so that they look good and then the image is fixed for posterity. It is a dirty, messy, fast process, full of unforeseen events. The only sure thing is that everything changes.
-We are going to walk this path together, step by step, day by day, with the best intention, that is the only thing we can promise ourselves.
-The years pass silently, on tiptoe, mocking in whispers, and suddenly they scare us in the mirror, they hit our knees or they stick a dagger in our back.
-The only good thing about marriage is being a widow.
-I have plenty of time and for the first time in my life nobody expects anything from me. I don't have to prove anything, I'm not running everywhere. Every day is a gift that I enjoy the most.
-Maybe he was afraid that this great love, which had endured so many trials, could not survive the most terrible of all: living together.
-They met a couple of times a year at any point on the map to live a few days of illusion and then return with a grateful body and a happy soul.
-I shouldn't get ahead of myself. If I do not narrate the events of my life with rigor and harmony, I will lose my way.
-The grace was not dying, since that comes anyway, but surviving, which was a miracle.
-The woman invented love without a partner, venturing alone into amazing territories, with the audacity of those who do not know the risks.
-Almost all wounds heal with affection, you have to love yourself.
-What to do with this happiness that comes to us for no special reason, this happiness that requires nothing to exist?
-There is no end to complete in some stories, each one does the best they can do, and that's it.
-In the end, the only thing we have fully is the memory we have built.
-For a time they got lost in an absolute intimacy that they confused with love.
-They shared a happy relationship and did not call it love.
-The wishes and fears are illusions, not realities. You must practice detachment.
-Although they were dazed and hungry, many sang, because it would have been useless to aggravate the misfortune by complaining.
-You told me once that old men make love slowly. It is not a bad idea. We are going to love each other like a couple of grandparents.
-Almost everyone lies, some out of vanity, to appear in a favorable light, others out of fear, and most simply out of habit.
-What is not written on paper will be erased by time.
-The heart is like a box. If it is full of garbage, there is no room for other things.
-They say that very beautiful women are unforgettable, I hope you learn to live without her, even if you don't forget her.
-No one cares about the problems of others and the quiet pains end up being diluted.
-I think hard work is always rewarded.
-Death is not an insurmountable impediment to communication between those who truly love each other.
It had taken him a long time to recover from the frustrated love and he feared that if he heard her voice for an instant he would be shipwrecked again in the same stubborn passion as before.