Quote by Joseph Campbell
I dont believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much

I dont believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. – Joseph Campbell

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When people get married because they think its a long-time love affair, theyll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. – Joseph Campbell

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Love
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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. – Joseph Campbell

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Life
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Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a – Joseph Campbell

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Genius is the ability to renew ones emotions in daily experience. – Paul Cezanne

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Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful. – Joyce Maynard

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Experience

I dont think I even knew how big we were at the time. It was mad. I gained a lot through East 17 and Im grateful for being able to have that experience. – Brian Harvey

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Experience

Its wonderful to be in love. And its definitely wonderful to cuddle and have sex and get to experience life with somebody. But its OK if you dont find him and youre 24. You can find it someday. – Leighton Meester

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Ive been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other. – Tim Ryan

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Sometimes I miss out the mornings painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open. – Gustav Klimt

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Morning

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. – Henry Rollins

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I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence. – Adam Rickitt

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