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Santiago. Later Clotario Blest commented his dropout with the following words: "There must be a rebel within me. I do not easily accept orders with which I disagree".
214:, his sister Leopoldina studied in Escuela Normalista, and his brother Fernando continued a military career. Given his family's economic problems, Blest decided to work instead of studying at university. It was in this period that Blest learned about
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whose talks and conferences he followed. Blest was influenced by the ideas of
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