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We've lost our sense of ethics we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

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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