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In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors.

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
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Pictures
Glaring
States
Intense
Daylight
Play
Extraordinary
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Shapes
Stream
Color
Colors
Unpleasantly
Eyes
Streams
Kaleidoscopic
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