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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
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People
Falling
Suffer
Afraid
Suffering
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Love

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