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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
Silence
Born
Death
Two
Nothing
Life
Silences
Unfathomable
Noise

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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
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