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Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.

Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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Tourism is sin, and travel on foot virtue.
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