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

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
Born
Death
Two
Nothing
Life
Silences
Unfathomable
Noise
Silence

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