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)

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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