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LSD wanted to tell me something. It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.

Albert Hofmann

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Albert Hofmann
Age: 102 †
Born: 1906
Born: January 11
Died: 2008
Died: April 29
Chemist
Non-Fiction Writer
Scientist
Baden
Switzerland
Wanted
Inner
Gratefulness
Something
Gave
Mindedness
Creation
Psychedelic
Joy
Sensitivity
Open
Internals
Eyes
Miracles
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