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History is not Time nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.

Andrei Tarkovsky

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Andrei Tarkovsky
Age: 54 †
Born: 1932
Born: April 4
Died: 1986
Died: December 28
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