Pablo Neruda, Nobel Prize Winner in Chilean Literature: «If Nothing Saves Us From Death, Unless Love Saves Us From Life»

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Pablo Neruda arrived in the world marked by death. His mother, Rosa Neftalí Basoalto, died of tuberculosis when he was two months old. His childhood in Temuco was that of a child who learned to read the wet landscape of southern Chile without anyone explaining to him what it was like to stay without someone. And of course, that early presence of loss did not paralyze him. He gave him an address: if death cannot be negotiated, love can become som…