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Portrait in Sepia QUOTES

Portrait in Sepia QUOTES

1 " Mediante la fotografía y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condición fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusión de mi pasado. "

― Isabel Allende , Portrait in Sepia

2 " write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway. "

― Isabel Allende , Portrait in Sepia

3 " Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives. "

― Isabel Allende , Portrait in Sepia

4 " La verdadera amistad resiste el tiempo, la distancia y el silencio. "

― Isabel Allende , Portrait in Sepia

5 " I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality. "

― Isabel Allende , Portrait in Sepia

6 " Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses the luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone of telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia. "

― Isabel Allende , Portrait in Sepia

7 " لا شيء مجاني في هذا العالم، فمقابل هذه التفاهات ستدفع ثمنًا غاليًا جدًا. "

― Isabel Allende , Portrait in Sepia

8 " التصوير والكتابة هما محاولة للإمساك باللحظات قبل أن تتلاشى . "

― Isabel Allende , Portrait in Sepia

9 " La memoria imprime en blanco y negro, los grises se pierden por el camino. "

― Isabel Allende , Portrait in Sepia

10 " لا يحتاج المرء إلى موهبة ليكون فنانًا، إنه بحاجة إلى الجرأة فقط. "

― Isabel Allende , Portrait in Sepia

11 " لا يكسب من يملك الحق، وإنّما من يحسن المساومة. "

― Isabel Allende , Portrait in Sepia

12 " Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise my thoughts, to do research, to read and listen, to seek alternatives, to resolve old problems with new solutions, to argue logically. Above all, she taught me not to believe anything blindly, to doubt, and to question even what seemed irrefutably true, such as man's superiority over woman, or one race or social class over another. "

― Isabel Allende , Portrait in Sepia

13 " I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing. "

― Isabel Allende , Portrait in Sepia

14 " النَّاس لا يريدون صدقات، بل يريدون كسب عيشهم بكرامة. "

― Isabel Allende , Portrait in Sepia

15 " القتل يُكلّف قليلًا ، أما البقاء على قيد الحياة فهو الذي يُكلّف يا بُنيّ . "

― Isabel Allende , Portrait in Sepia

16 " Si fuera capaz de exteriorizar mis sentimientos, tal vez sufriría menos, pero se me quedan atorados adentro, como un inmenso bloque de hielo y pueden pasar años antes que el hielo empiece a derretirse. "

― Isabel Allende , Portrait in Sepia

17 " The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich soil but in stony land; the plant, with a mother's obstinacy, overcomes obstacles to thrust its roots deep into the ground and take advantage of every drop of water. That, my grandmother explained to me, is how flavors are concentrated in the grape. "

― Isabel Allende , Portrait in Sepia

18 " كل واحد يختار درجة اللون كي يحكي قصّته الخاصة؛ و بودّي أن اختار الوضوح الدائم لصورة مطبوعة بالبلاتين .. لكن ما من شيء في قدري يملك هذه الخاصّية المضيئة ؛أعيش بين صبغات باهتة وألغاز مخفيّة و عدم يقين .. واللون المناسب لرواية حياتي ينطبق أكثر مع لون صورة حائلة صورة "بالسبيا" . "

― Isabel Allende , Portrait in Sepia

19 " No existe luz sin sombra, tal como no existe dicha sin dolor. "

― Isabel Allende , Portrait in Sepia

20 " Cada uno escoge el tono para contar su propia historia; quisiera optar por la claridad durable de una impresión en platino, pero nada en mi destino posee esa luminosa cualidad. Vivo entre difusos matices, velados misterios, incertidumbres; el tono para contar mi vida se ajusta más al de un retrato en sepia... "

― Isabel Allende , Portrait in Sepia