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The man wants to stick his iron pick in the little basket, and I do not prevent him. I open the knapsack, and he sees nothing in it. And the food for the soul passes, candid and free, without paying tribute to the customs.

— Juan Ramón Jiménez ‪Platero and I‬ (1917)

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