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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. and in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘what is it?’ in that moment art can be created.
-Terence McKenna
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You Are Some Kind Of A Mystery

Terence McKenna
You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. and in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘what is it?’ in that moment art can be created.
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