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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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Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. – 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

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The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels. – Mikhail Strabo

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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

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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. – Roland Barthes

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