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It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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White Plains
New York
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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is negativism to life. We are not there until we can say 'yea' to it all.
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What's made up in the head is the fiction. What comes out of the heart is a myth.
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It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope there is no such society any more as the gods once supported.
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Awe is what moves us forward.
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Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
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Everything starts with a story.
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