"Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with re...

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












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