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" I like intensity. If it's too mellow, I feel like, bleah. I like intensity, because it's way of reaching spaces inside of you, and it's my need of knowledge, of knowing about myself regardless. "

Juliette Binoche

Way

Knowledge

Feel

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Great

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Humanity

Life

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Believe

Coincidence

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Forgotten

Worry

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Say

Fighting

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Pretty

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Famous

You

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Wanted

Child

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