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You can't go to an LSD or pot party unless you take it yourself. If I want to go, I must take drugs myself.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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Michelangelo Antonioni
Age: 94 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 29
Died: 2007
Died: July 30
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