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Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.

— Isabel Allende Of Love and Shadows (1984)

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More quotes by Isabel Allende

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

Paula (1994)

How accommodating love is; it forgives everything.

Inés of My Soul (2006)

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

Of Love and Shadows (1984)

It’s easy to judge others when we are not going through the same thing.

Maya's Notebook (2011)

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir (2007)

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