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Federico García Lorca, poet: "If I were hungry and destitute in the street, I would not ask for bread; but rather I would ask for half a loaf and a book."
Clarín · western europe
The story behind Federico García Lorca's famous phrase about bread and books, uttered in 1931 when inaugurating a library in Fuente Vaqueros. The context of the speech in which the poet defended access to culture as a necessity.
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