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The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
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City of the Kings
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