"There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain."
"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."
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Source: Isabel Allende, John Rodden (1999). “Conversations with Isabel Allende”, Univ of Texas Pr
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