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"Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life."

Giorgos Seferis, Greek Poet

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"Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life."

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