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Isabel Allende _ Eva Luna
I tried to show my affection and gratitude with small attentions, but he would not allow it; he was not used to receiving affection, although it was his nature to squander it on others.
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Isabel Allende _ Eva Luna
algunas concubinas, mientras los ministros dudaban
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Isabel Allende _ Eva Luna
Als ich siebzehn wurde, war mein Körper ausgewachsen, und mein Gesicht nahm die Züge an, die es noch heute zeigt. Da hörte ich auf, mich im Spiegel zu mustern, um mich mit den vollkommenen Frauen aus den Filmen und den Zeitschriften zu vergleichen, und entschied, dass ich schön war aus dem einfachen Grund, weil ich Lust hatte, schön zu sein.
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Isabel Allende _ Eva Luna
He had a presentiment that their fates would be intertwined, but immediately rejected it; he always tried to avoid falling into the traps of intuition.
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Isabel Allende _ Eva Luna
Melesio tweezed his facial hairs, then ran ether-soaked cotton over his face, so his skin was the texture of silk; he took pains with his long-fingered, slender hands, and every night brushed his hair one hundred times. He was tall, with strong bones, but he moved with such delicacy that he gave the impression of being fragile. He never talked about his family and it would be years later, during his time in the penal colony on Santa María, that La Señora learned anything about his past. His father had been a bear of a man who had emigrated from Sicily and who every time he found his son playing with his sister's toys gave him a beating accompanied by cries of Ricchione! Pederasta! Mascalzone!"
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Isabel Allende _ Eva Luna
Cuando escribo cuento la vida como me gustaría que fuera, como una novela."
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Isabel Allende _ Eva Luna
On that long journey she wept all the tears stored in her soul, leaving none in reserve for later sorrows.
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Isabel Allende _ Eva Luna
Although stunned and hungry, many sang, because it would have been pointless to aggravate misfortune by complaining.
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Isabel Allende _ Eva Luna
Entonces dejé de examinarme en el espejo para compararme con las mujeres perfectas del cine y las revistas y decidí que era bella por la simple razón de que tenía ganas de serlo.
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Isabel Allende _ Eva Luna
The house was a vast labyrinth of books. Volumes were stacked from floor to ceiling on every wall, dark, crackling, redolent of leather bindings, smooth to the touch, with their gold titles and translucent gilt-edged pages and delicate typography.
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Isabel Allende _ Eva Luna
Words are free, she used to say, and she appropriated them; they were all hers. She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.
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Isabel Allende _ Eva Luna
At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.
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