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Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
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Dies
World
Born
Fear
Reality
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Unknown
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Dying
Nothing
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Within

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Empowering women means trusting them.
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In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of thinking, more inclusion and more diversity.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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