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Octavio Paz [1914-1998] Mexican Poet (with poems)
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The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.

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Independence

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