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INTERVIEWER
You have been criticized for the way you live and for your economic position. . . . Isn’t this accusation more intense because you belong to the Communist Party?
NERUDA
Precisely. He who has nothing—it has been said many times—has nothing to lose but his chains. I risk, at every moment, my life, my person, all that I have—my books, my house. My house has been burned; I have been persecuted; I have been detained more than once; I have been exiled; they have declared me incommunicado; I have been sought by thousands of police. Very well then. I’m not comfortable with what I have.
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