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Joseph Campbell Quotes: Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
         

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.


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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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A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.



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Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.



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It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.





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