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La carta en la que rompía su amistad con él estaba llena de ese sentimiento patriótico del que antes se burlaba, de ese amor a la bandera y al terruño que antes le parecía primario y despreciable.
The letter in which he broke off his friendship with Roger was filled with the patriotic sentiment he had once mocked, the love for the flag and his native land that once had seemed primitive and contemptible to him.
Este juicio le parecerá severo, extremado, ante lo que para usted no es sino un virtuoso e idealista sentimiento de solidaridad y amor con el terruño y los recuerdos («la tierra y los muertos», según el antropoide francés señor Maurice Barrés), ese marco de referencias ambientales y culturales sin el cual un ser humano se siente vacío.
You may think this judgment severe, even extremist, when applied to something that for you is simply a virtuous, idealistic feeling of solidarity and love for one’s native land and one’s memories (“the land and its dead,” according to the French anthropoid Maurice Barrès), the frame of environmental and cultural references without which a human being feels empty.
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