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The quote suggests that speaking openly about personal secrets can reduce their power over you. It contrasts the discomfort of sharing with the greater risk of carrying hidden secrets alone.
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Originally said in English.
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About Isabel Allende
Chilean-American writer
Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American writer known for her fiction and for novels that often use elements of magical realism. Her work includes The House of the Spirits and City of the Beasts, both of which found wide commercial success. She has been described as the world’s most widely read Spanish-language author. In 2004, she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She later received Chile’s National Literature Prize in 2010 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014.
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Books by Isabel Allende
La casa de los espíritus
1994
Hija de la fortuna
2000
Retrato en sepia
2000
De amor y de sombra
1984
Inés del alma mía
2006