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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
Isabel Allende Llona
Person
Loses
Writing
Happen
Much
Stop
Something
Fear
Love
Write
Happens
Nevertheless
Cannot
Loving
Persons
Lose

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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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