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Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I know not, indeed, whether it be a greater and more difficult exercise of magnanimity, for the one party to act as if he had forgotten, or for the other as if he constantly remembered the obligation.

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Isabel Allende

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

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You spend the first part of your life collecting things. . . and the second half getting rid of them.

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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

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What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

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Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape. . . . For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.

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