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Quote by Joseph Campbell
He said myths and mythology wasnt to give meaning to life but to g

He said myths and mythology wasnt to give meaning to life but to give us an experience of life, an experience of vitality in being alive. – Joseph Campbell

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I think the person who takes a job in order to live – that is to say, for the money – has turned himself into a slave. – Joseph Campbell

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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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Myths which are believed in tend to become true. – George Orwell

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All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence. – Wallace Stevens

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

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