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Facts do not convey truth. That's a mistake. Facts create norms, but truth creates illumination.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
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I don't care whether the person is guilty or not guilty. It's not my business to establish guilt or innocence. It's a court of law that does that and a jury does that, but not me.
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I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I have been in solitude, and I have also briefly been behind bars. So in a way, I know the heart of men.
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I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.
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I don't dabble, I'm good at acting.
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