“I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality.”

— Isabel Allende , book Portrait in Sepia

Source: Portrait in Sepia

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Chilean writer 1942

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