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There are apparently few limitations either of time or space on where the psyche might journey and only the customs inspector employed by our own inhibitions restricts what it might bring back when it reenters the home country of everyday consciousness.

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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