“The pure and poorly adapted one who crashed against the world of fakes and cheats.”

—  César Vallejo

El puro y desadaptado que choca con el mundo de las farsas y de las apañucias.
Source: Aphorisms (2002), p. 32

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Peruvian writer 1892–1938

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