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As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
Academic
Anthropologist
Essayist
Ethnologist
Historian
Historian Of Religion
Lecturer
Mythologist
Orator
Researcher
Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
Candle
Aging
Holy
Beauty
Face
Faces
White
Place
Aged

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