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Sonnet LXVI
by Pablo Neruda

from Cien Sonetos de Amor
(100 Love Sonnets) 

I do not love you - except because I love you; 
I go from loving to not loving you, 
from waiting to not waiting for you 
my heart moves from the cold into 
 
the fire. I love you only because it's you 
I love; I hate you no end, and hating you 
bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you 
is that I do not see you but love you 
 
blindly. Maybe the January light will consume 
my heart with its cruel 
ray, stealing my key to true 
 
calm. In this part of the story I am the one who 
dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, 
because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood. 

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 (1904-1973)  was born on 12 July, 1904, in the town of Parral  continue

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