843 Quotes by Isabel Allende


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    La humanidad debe vivir en un mundo unido, donde se mezclen las razas, lenguas, costumbres y sueños de todos los hombres. El nacionalismo repugna a la razón. En nada beneficia a los pueblos. Sólo sirve para que en su nombre se cometan los peores abusos.

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    It made her feel sorry for her husband: she was discovering how vulnerable to flattery a conceited old man could be.

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    La conciencia puede ser más fuerte que el entrenamiento y todas las estupendas razones para la guerra.

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    The upper middle class and the economic right, who had favored the coup, were euphoric. At first they were a little shocked when they saw the consequences of their action; they had never lived in a dictatorship and did not know what it was like. They thought the loss of democratic freedoms would be temporary and that it was possible to go without individual or collective rights for a while so long as the regime respected the tenets of free enterprise.

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    —¿Te los desordenó? —le preguntó Amanda, súbitamente interesada.—Los alineó en orden alfabético y ahora no puedo encontrar nada. Yo tengo mi propio orden.

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    I have the idea that we grandmothers are meant to play the part of protective witches; we must watch over younger women, children, community and also, why not? this mistreated planet, the victim of such unrelenting desecration.

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