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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Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter… This is it… If you dont get it here, you wont get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; heres the place to have the experience. – Joseph Campbell

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If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldnt have opened for anyone else. – Joseph Campbell

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

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

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

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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I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony. – Mark Strand

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Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. – Gian Vincenzo Gravina

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Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive. – Jean De La Bruyere

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If you got the game, you got the game. Thats why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman. – Shaquille ONeal

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