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As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.


Jonas Mekas

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SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you.

His first words to me— not a lie at a...
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And I was not a mouse.
I ...
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SARAH J. MAAS Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.
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