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    Pablo Neruda's poem argues that people who fail to experience life through travel, reading, music, self-reflection and passion "die slowly." Specifically, the poem states that those who do not ask questions, change their routines, take risks or allow themselves to be helped become slaves to habit and miss out on finding happiness, essentially experiencing a slow death. The poem encourages readers to avoid small doses of death by putting in effort to live fully through experiences that make their hearts pound and eyes glimmer.

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    Pablo Neruda's poem argues that people who fail to experience life through travel, reading, music, self-reflection and passion "die slowly." Specifically, the poem states that those who do not ask questions, change their routines, take risks or allow themselves to be helped become slaves to habit and miss out on finding happiness, essentially experiencing a slow death. The poem encourages readers to avoid small doses of death by putting in effort to live fully through experiences that make their hearts pound and eyes glimmer.

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    Pablo Neruda's poem argues that people who fail to experience life through travel, reading, music, self-reflection and passion "die slowly." Specifically, the poem states that those who do not ask questions, change their routines, take risks or allow themselves to be helped become slaves to habit and miss out on finding happiness, essentially experiencing a slow death. The poem encourages readers to avoid small doses of death by putting in effort to live fully through experiences that make their hearts pound and eyes glimmer.

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    Die Slowly

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    Pablo Neruda's poem argues that people who fail to experience life through travel, reading, music, self-reflection and passion "die slowly." Specifically, the poem states that those who do not ask questions, change their routines, take risks or allow themselves to be helped become slaves to habit and miss out on finding happiness, essentially experiencing a slow death. The poem encourages readers to avoid small doses of death by putting in effort to live fully through experiences that make their hearts pound and eyes glimmer.

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    "Die Slowly" by Pablo Neruda who fail to ask questions on subjects he

    doesn’t know,
    He who does not travel,
    he or she who don’t reply when they are
    who does not read, asked something they do know, die slowly.
    who does not listen to music, Let’s try and avoid death in small doses,
    who does not find grace in himself, dies always reminding oneself that being alive
    slowly. requires an effort by far
    He who slowly destroys his own self-esteem, greater than the simple fact of breathing.
    who does not allow himself to be helped, Only a burning patience will lead to the
    attainment of a splendid happiness.
    who spends days on end complaining about
    his own bad luck,
    about the rain that never stops, dies slowly.

    He who becomes the slave of habit,

    who follows the same routes every day,


    who never changes pace,

    who does not risk and change the colour of


    his clothes,
    who does not speak and does not experience,
    dies slowly.
    He or she who shuns passion,

    who prefers black on white,

    dotting ones rather than a bundle of emotions,


    the kind that make your eyes glimmer,

    that turn a yawn into a smile,


    that make the heart pound in the face of
    mistakes and feelings, dies slowly.

    He or she who does not turn things topsy-


    turvy,

    who is unhappy at work,

    who does not risk certainty for uncertainty,


    to thus follow a dream,

    those who do not forego sound advice at least


    once in their lives, die slowly.
    He or she who abandon a project before
    starting it,

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