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> [“Modern mass culture, aimed at the "consumer", the civilization of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrei-tarkovsky/modern-mass-culture-aimed-at-the-consumer-the-civilization-of/)

[Andrei Tarkovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrei-tarkovsky/)

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