Quote by Joseph Campbell
Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great p

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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When you make the sacrifice in marriage, youre sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. – Joseph Campbell

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The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth. – Joseph Campbell

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The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. – Joseph Campbell

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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. – Salman Rushdie

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. – Irwin Edman

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. – Italo Calvino

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. – Greil Marcus

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Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. Youre constantly depicting something that doesnt exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees. – Ron Perlman

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