“Life is spent looking while never seeing”

—  Bassel Khartabil

Tweet Oct 02, 2009, 3:51AM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/4549955344 at Twitter.com

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free culture and democracy activist, Syrian political priso… 1981–2015

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