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He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is it forgives everything.

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
Everything
Sigh
Love
Forgiving
Anger
Touch
Tears
Turn
Turns
Sighs
Desire
Forgives

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if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
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