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If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
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Fear
Love
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His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
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How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
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We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
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