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Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor Quotes: When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its course, you will find that you have lived a model human life, after all.
         

When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its course, you will find that you have lived a model human life, after all.


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When you have lived your individual life in your own adventurous way and then look back upon its course, you will find that you have lived a model human life, after all.
         



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