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Isabel Allende, née le 2 août 1942 à Lima au Pérou, est une écrivaine chilienne naturalisée américaine d'expression espagnole. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. août 1942  •  Autres noms ایزابل آلنده, ایزابل آلنداٛ
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Isabel Allende: Citations en anglais

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

Isabel Allende livre La Maison aux esprits

Source: The House of the Spirits

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

Isabel Allende livre La somma dei giorni

Source: La suma de los días

“My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.”

Isabel Allende

Source: My Invented Country : A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile

“His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.”

Isabel Allende livre Daughter of Fortune

Source: Daughter of Fortune

“It’s easy to judge others when we are not going through the same thing.”

Isabel Allende livre Maya's Notebook

Source: Maya's Notebook

“Before you conquer the mountain, you must learn to overcome your fear.”

Isabel Allende livre City of the Beasts

Source: City of the Beasts

“Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone.”

Isabel Allende livre La Maison aux esprits

Source: The House of the Spirits

“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 livre La Maison aux esprits

Variante: 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.
Source: The House of the Spirits

“How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.”

Isabel Allende livre Kingdom of the Golden Dragon

Source: Kingdom of the Golden Dragon

“The theme of displacement is very natural for me. It always comes up in my books because I have been a foreigner all my life and I don’t feel I belong anywhere. I’m an immigrant.”

Isabel Allende

On how her sense of self remains tied to her native country in “Isabel Allende: 'Few couples survive the death of one child, let alone three'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/02/isabel-allende-interview-marriage-breakup-the-japanese-lover in The Guardian (2015 Dec 2)

“Thank God – because what are you going to write about if you don’t struggle as a child? I don’t think that you become creative because you have struggled, no, but creative people are fuelled by anger and passion, and haunted by demons and memories.”

Isabel Allende

On how her miserable childhood may have inadvertently affected her writing in “The incredible life of Isabel Allende” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/10589928/The-incredible-life-of-Isabel-Allende.html in The Telegraph (2014 Jan 28)

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