Julia Sets: Periodic and Non-Periodic Points Explained

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I'm a little bewildered when reading about these Julia sets. From the definition a Julia set is the closure of all repelling periodic points of a complex map f.
However I read that a Julia set always contain periodic and non-periodic points. Wasn't the definition including only periodic points? What am I missing here.
 
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