"There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain."
"I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did."
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Source: Isabel Allende (2014). “Ines of My Soul: A Novel”, p.10, Harper Collins
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