Isabel Allende

A Long Petal of the Sea

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    heroically. In his heart of hearts he was hoping they would rouse his country from its insular somnolence
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    it made no sense to leave behind men and women who had defended their ideals so
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    Her husband had worked collecting cork before
    the war, and when Neruda had told him there were no cork oaks in Chile, he replied drily: well, there will be. The poet thought this was a splendid riposte, and so accepted him on board
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    concentration camps and my exiles. I didn’t choose any of that: it simply happened to me.”
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    Faced with so many disasters, happiness seemed to him obscene
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    He wasn’t worried about his health. He had adopted the theory that to stay healthy, the best thing was to ignore any bodily or mental alarm signals and always keep busy
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    Marriage suits men, although not women. When it came to marriage, though
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    The problem was how hard it sometimes can be to die swiftly and with dignity. It
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    he felt her absence as a physical pain. He didn’t want to accept being old. Advanced age is a distortion of a familiar reality, it changes the body as well as circumstances. You gradually lose control and have to depend on the kindness of others
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    He realized in horror that the half century they had spent together had galloped by. Where had the days and years gone
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