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during the Civil War, having seen so many corpses and that the UDC was the only party without any blood on its hands. He conceived his masterpiece, Uncertain Glory, as a testament to his dead comrades: "I sought to bear witness to that which I had experienced, against the black lie - the
Falangists -
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Catalan roots. In 1932, Sales obtained a law degree and also became one of the first officially recognised teachers of Catalan.
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