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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

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
Reality
Breaths
Desperately
Past
Disappear
Traps
Trying
Changing
Immediately
Every
Pure
Conquer
Untangle
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Longing
Transitory
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Confusion
Ephemeral
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