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

— Isabel Allende The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir (2007)

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

Of Love and Shadows (1984)

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)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

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