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Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance regrets are illuminations come too late.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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Historian Of Religion
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White Plains
New York
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The demon that you can swallow gives you it’s power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
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All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all poetry is now archaic that fails to match the wonder of this view.
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