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People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.

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
People
Falling
Suffer
Afraid
Suffering
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Love

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He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.
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We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
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I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.
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I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
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