Quotes from Daughter of Fortune

“His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“من يعرف أكثر، عليه واجبات أكثر تجاه الإنسانية.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“She never imagined a scenario in which her love was not returned with the same depth of feeling, for to her it was impossible to believe that a love of such magnitude could have stunned only her. The most elementary logic and justice indicated that somewhere in the city he was suffering the same delicious torment.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“يبدو أننا جميعاً جئنا نبحث عن شيء و وجدنا شيئاً آخر ..”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“المعارف لا تفيد كثيرًا ما لم يكن المرء قادرًا على الدفاع عن نفسه.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“Lo que se olvida es como si nunca hubiera sucedido”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“الهواء العليل والعمل القاسي علاج صائب لحماقة الحب”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“في الحياة لا يصل أحد إلى شيء، فقط يسير”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“حيث توجد النساء ، توجد الحضارة”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“العناد شرّ قوي جداً: يمسك الدماغ ويمزّق القلب.
هناك أنواع كثيرة من العناد، لكن أسوأها هو عناد الحب.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“ما يُنسى يبدو كأنّه لم يحدُث قط .”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“مايهم هو مايفعله المرء في هذا العالم، وليس كيف وصل إليه”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“كلما تعلمت أكثر اكتشفت كم هي معرفتك قليلة.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“However, in those last months of riding across the golden landscape of California she felt she was flying free, like a condor. She was awakened one morning by the whinnying of her horse with the full light of dawn in her face, surrounded by tall sequoias that, like centenary guards, had watched over her sleep, by gentle hills, and, far in the distance, purple mountaintops; at that moment she was filled with an atavistic happiness that was entirely new. She realized that she had lost the feeling of panic that had lain curled in the pit of her stomach like a rat, threatening to gnaw her entrails. Her fears had dissipated in the awesome grandeur of this landscape. To the measure that she confronted danger, she was becoming bolder: she had lost her fear of fear. "I am finding new strength in myself; I may always have had it and just didn't know because I'd never had to call on it. I don't know at what turn in the road I shed the person I used to be, Tao. Now I am only one of thousands of adventurers scattered along the banks of these crystal-clear rivers and among the foothills of these eternal mountains. Here men are proud, with no one above them but the sky overhead; they bow to no one because they are inventing equality. And I want to be one of them. Some are winners with sacks of gold slung over their backs; some, defeated, carry nothing but disillusion and debts, but they all believe they are masters of their destiny, of the ground they walk on, of the future, of their own undeniable dignity. After knowing them I can never again be the lady Miss Rose intended me to be. Finally I understand Joaquín, why he stole precious hours from our love to talk to me about freedom. So, this was what he meant . . . It was this euphoria, this light, this happiness as intense as the few moments of shared love I can remember.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“أحيانًا، على المر أن يكون مستعدًا للعيش كالكلاب، لأن تكاليف الحياة باهظة جدًا.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“She entered the place of her dreams along a much traveled path and returned treading very carefully in order not to shatter the tenuous visions against the harsh light of consciousness.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“The only good thing about marriage is becoming a widow”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“She has a fixation on love. Strong trouble. The girl left her window open one clear night and it crawled into her body while she was asleep. There's no spell can cure it.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“ما يُنسى يكون كما لو أنه لم يحدث قط.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“الحبّ الأول مثل الحصبة، يترك أثارًا لا تُمحى.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“-هل ستموت طفلتي؟
- لا أعرف عن هذا، لكنّها ستعاني كثيراً، لا شكّ عندي بذلك.
-مالذي بها؟
- إصرار على الحب. وهو شرّ قويّ. لاشكّ أنها تركت النافذة مفتوحة في الليلة الصافية ودخل في جسدها أثناء نومها. لايوجد سحر ضدّ هذا.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“ذلك الحب الجامح لم يكن مسخاً من خيال المراهقة, بل وُجد كنعمة قصيرة وعذاب طويل”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“All husbands are boring... No woman with ounce of sense gets married to be entertained, she marries to be maintained.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“«Estoy encontrando nuevas fuerzas en mí, que tal vez siempre tuve, pero no conocía porque hasta ahora no había necesitado ejercerlas. No sé en qué vuelta del camino se me perdió la persona que yo antes”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“المهم هو ما يفعله المرء في هذه الدنيا، وليس كيف جاء إليها.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

“He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included service to others. As he explained many times, the essence of a good physician consisted of a capacity for compassion and a sense of the ethical, without which qualities the sacred art of healing degenerated into simple charlatanism.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Daughter of Fortune

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