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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
Noise
Silence
Born
Death
Two
Nothing
Life
Silences
Unfathomable

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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was not an issue, when children were working in factories. I mean, today's world is a better place!
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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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