PAULA
Isabel Allende

"...abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it."

"'We forget,' he often said, 'that no matter what we do, we are on the road to death.'"

"The future does not exist, the Indians of the Altiplano say, we can only be sure of the past--from which we draw experience and knowledge--and the present--a brief spark that at the instant it is born becomes yesterday."

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

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