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One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. You are as if born again, in the sense of the snake: You leave your skin behind and you begin again. For most people in the world, that is totally impossible.

Isabel Allende
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Everyone in his place and a place for everyone.

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Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

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We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

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There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.

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For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

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Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.

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You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.

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It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.

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