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Let's transplant the primitive soul to the ultramodern New York, inject his soul with the noise of the subway, of the 'el', and may his brain become a long street of buildings 224 stories high. [Barcelona - Dada, 1917]

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The plate that a peasant eats his soup out of is much more interesting to me than the ridiculously rich plates of rich people.

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