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This is to assuage our conscience, darling she would explain to Blanca. But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy they need justice.
Isabel Allende
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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
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Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you’re from or what you did before.
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.
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