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To get the canonical (not ?page=1) reference URL to start the pagination from you have to change
'base' => '%_%'
to
'base' => get_pagenum_link() . '%_%' // get_pagenum_link() default is '1'
which will give you the first page of paginated posts and %_% will be replaced by 'format' parameter on the next pages.
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