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One becomes wise only in measures, as he goes through his own insanity.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Alejandro Jodorowsky
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: February 7
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I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest.
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The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the sun he goes blind.
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