This time of year.

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You cannot use somebody else's map to find yourself.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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On the set of Mirror; dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1975

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On the set of Stalker; dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1979

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For man, time can't just disappear without a trace, because it's subjective, belongs in the category of spirituality. The time we lived through are stored in our soul as layers of experience bound by time. In some ways the past is much more real or at least more stable and constant than the present. The present is ever elusive and disappears like sand through fingers and only achieves material weight in memory.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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Solaris, dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972

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To return is impossible and to talk about it forbidden.

— Arseny Tarkovsky

Do you really believe in these fairy tales? Not in the good ones, but in the terrifying ones, yes.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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