“He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious. ”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega?
-No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul. ”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death. ”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“The concept that you could possess land was as unfathomable to them as that of dividing up the sea.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“Love is a condition that tends to cloud men’s reason, but it is not fatal. Usually all the patient needs is to have his love returned, and he will snap out of it and begin to sniff the air in search of new prey”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“Those native peoples were confounded by the mystery of the crucified man the whites worshipped, and they could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“A infância é uma época desgraçada, cheia de temores infundados, como o medo de monstros imaginários e do ridículo. Do ponto de vista literário, não tem suspence, já que, salvo excepções, as crianças costumam ser um pouco desenxabidas. Além disso, não têm poder- os adultos decidem por elas e fazem-no mal, inculcam-lhes as suas próprias ideias erróneas sobre a realidade e depois os miúdos passam o resto das suas vidas a tentar livrarem-se delas.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“Memory is fragile and capricious; each of us remembers and forgets according to what is convenient. The past is a notebook with many leaves on which we jot down our lives with ink that changes according to our state of mind.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“A veces se preguntaba si los indios no estaban mejor antes, cuando eran dueños de California y vivían a su manera, con sus costumbres y sus dioses, pero enseguida se persignaba y pedía perdón a Dios por tamaña herejía. «¡Adónde vamos a parar si yo mismo dudo del cristianismo!», suspiraba, arrepentido.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“[…]Diego, quien sigue ocupado de hacer justicia, en parte por buen corazón, pero más que nada porque le encanta vestirse de Zorro y correr aventuras de capa y espada. No menciono pistolas porque pronto abandonó su uso; considera que las armas de fuego, además de ser imprecisas, no son dignas de un valiente. Para batirse sólo necesita a Justina, la espada a la que ama como a una novia. Ya no tiene edad para esas chiquilladas, pero por lo visto mi amigo nunca sentará cabeza.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“The Spanish authorities attributed La Pérouse's opinions to the regrettable fact that the man was French, but his writings made a profound impression on Padre Mendoza.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“Full belly, happy heart,” was the favorite saying of Padre Mendoza, who had been obsessed with good nutrition ever since he’d heard of sailors suffering from scurvy when a lemon could have prevented their agony.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“He’s a woman!” he shouted, horrified.
Padre Mendoza and the others came running up, only to stand and stare, mute with amazement, at the virginal breasts of the warrior.
“It’s going to be much more difficult to kill him now,” Padre Mendoza sighed finally.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“Não há nada tão insatisfatório como um fim com pontas soltas, essa tendência moderna de deixar os livros a meio.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“El heroísmo es una ocupación mal remunerada, que a menudo conduce a un fin prematuro, por eso atrae a personas fanáticas o con una malsana fascinación por la muerte. Existen muy pocos héroes de corazón romántico y de sangre liviana.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“Tampoco entendían que los extranjeros plantaran una bandera en el suelo, marcaran líneas imaginarias, lo declararan de su propiedad y se ofendieran si alguien entraba persiguiendo a un venado. La idea de poseer la tierra les resultaba tan inverosímil como la de repartirse el mar.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“Por fortuna no me enamoré del Zorro locamente, como le ocurre a la mayoría de las mujeres al conocerlo; siempre he mantenido la cabeza fría con respecto a él. Me di cuenta a tiempo de que nuestro héroe sólo es capaz de amar a aquellas que no le corresponden, y decidí ser una de ellas. Ha pretendido casarse conmigo cada vez que le falla una de sus novias o se queda viudo —eso ha ocurrido un par de veces—, y me he negado. Tal vez por eso sueña conmigo cuando come pesado. Si yo lo aceptara como marido, muy pronto se sentiría atrapado y yo tendría que morirme para dejarle libre, como hicieron sus dos esposas. Prefiero esperar nuestra vejez con paciencia de beduino. Sé que estaremos juntos cuando él sea un anciano de piernas enclenques y mala cabeza, cuando otros zorros más jóvenes le hayan reemplazado, y en el caso improbable de que alguna dama le abriera su balcón y él no fuera capaz de treparlo. ¡Entonces me vengaré de las penurias que el Zorro me ha hecho pasar!”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“Diego había usado el florete a diario desde que era un niño, pero no había tenido que pelear en serio. Su único duelo a muerte fue con pistolas y había sido mucho más limpio. Comprobó que no hay nada honorable en un combate real, donde las reglas no cuentan para nada. La única regla es vencer, cueste lo que cueste. Los filos de las armas no chocaban en una elegante coreografía, como en las clases de esgrima, sino que apuntaban directamente al enemigo para atravesarlo. La caballerosidad no existía, los golpes eran feroces y no se daba cuartel a nadie. La sensación que transmitía el acero al entrar en la carne de un hombre era indescriptible. Se apoderó de él una mezcla de despiadada exaltación, de repugnancia y triunfo, perdió la noción de la realidad y se transformó en una bestia.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“Hasta ese momento no tenía conciencia cabal de su doble personalidad, por una parte Diego de la Vega, elegante, melindroso, hipocondríaco, y por otra el Zorro, audaz, atrevido, juguetón. Suponía que en algún punto entremedio estaba su verdadero carácter, pero no sabía cómo era, si ninguno de los dos, o la suma de ambos.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“The Indians’ insistence on clinging to their customs had to be the work of Satan there was no other explanation which is why the friars went out to hunt down and lasso the deserters and then whipped their doctrine of
love and forgiveness into them.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“He had the intellectual capacity of a louse, but shone in cooking up new ways to be cruel.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“A deprins astfel să citească expresia corporală şi a descoperit că nu întotdeauna cuvintele corespund intenţiilor. A priceput că bătăuşii sunt îndeobşte uşor de învins, că cei mai vorbăreţi sunt şi cei mai puţin sinceri, că aroganţa e tipică ignoranţilor, că linguşitorii sunt nişte javre.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“ایزابل از برهنگی به نمایش درآمده [توسط سرخپوستان] استفاده می کرد تا کنجکاوی دیرینه اش را ارضا کند. سال ها از خودش پرسیده بود که مردها و زن ها چه تفاوتی ممکن است داشته باشند. حالا در مرز ناامیدی و سرخوردگی بود، چون به هرحال، این تفاوت خیلی کوچک به نظر می رسید. حتی، آن طور که به ندیمه اش گفت، تفاوت موجود به راحتی در کیف دستی اش جا می گرفت”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“Later Tomás de Romeu asked Diego why he had challenged Moncada if he was not prepared to shoot him. Diego replied that he had never intended to carry a death on his conscience; all he had wanted was to humiliate him.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“They would regret that they had not killed him; he would get out of that hole and find Juliana sooner or later, even if he had to pursue her to hell itself. “Oh, you won’t have to go that far, we are on our way to California," Diego said in farewell”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“Considering the circumstances, it was a rather good kiss. In reality, it would have been perfect if they both had not been coughing from the smoke.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
“Salvo excepciones, los niños suelen ser un poco sosos. Además, carecen de poder, los adultos deciden por ellos y lo hacen mal, les inculcan sus propias ideas erróneas sobre la realidad y después los críos pasan el resto de sus vidas tratando de librarse de ellas.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Zorro
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“But we like to have somebody that we can be ourselves with, someone we can afford to be ourselves with, because we know we will be accepted.”
― Les Giblin, quote from How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing with People
“It was in this situation that she penetrated as a vague shape into the existence of Thomas. Everything there appeared desolate and mournful. Deserted shores where deeper and deeper absences, abandoned by the eternally departed sea after a magnificent shipwreck, gradually decomposed. She passed through strange dead cities where, rather than petrified shapes, mummified circumstances, she found a necropolis of movements, silences, voids; she hurled herself against the extraordinary sonority of nothingness which is made of the reverse of sound, and before her spread forth wondrous falls, dreamless sleep, the fading away which buries the dead in a life of dream, the death by which every man, even the weakest spirit, becomes spirit itself.”
― Maurice Blanchot, quote from Thomas the Obscure
“I wish I’d never met the bastard known as destiny.”
― Jessica Sorensen, quote from The Probability of Violet & Luke
“8) If someone makes you think, keep them. If someone makes you feel, keep them.”
― Scott Hildreth, quote from Broken People
“When Wiley moved back to Safe Haven, flush with ill-gotten gains, he spared no expense building his dream house. And Wiley’s idea of a dream house was very close to Batman’s.”
― Jack Kilborn, quote from Afraid
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