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We are surrounded by worn-out, banal, useless and exhausted images, limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution.

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Werner Herzog
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: September 5
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If you don’t have a deal in two days, you won’t have a deal in two years.
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The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.
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