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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.

Joseph Campbell

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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
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Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.
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The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
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If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.
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Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.
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He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.
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