"The jungle, existing exclusively in the present, is certainly subject to time, but remains forever ageless. Any concept of justice would be antithetical to all this. But is there justice in the desert, either? Or in the oceans? And in the depths? Life in the sea must be pure hell, an infinite hell of constant and ever-present danger, so unbearable that in the course of evolution some species – including Homo Sapiens – crawled, fled, onto some clods of firm land, the future continents."
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Werner Herzog, 12 Apr. 1981 diary entry, Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo (2009)
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Werner Herzog
deutscher Regisseur, Filmproduzent, Schauspieler, Synchronsprecher und Schriftsteller
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