“How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.”
― The Hero With a Thousand Faces
― The Hero With a Thousand Faces
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
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“But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.”
― The Hero With a Thousand Faces
― The Hero With a Thousand Faces
“The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members of society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to discover some life-giving elixir. It's usually a cycle, a coming and a returning.”
― The Hero With a Thousand Faces
― The Hero With a Thousand Faces
“A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: The hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.”
― The Hero With a Thousand Faces
― The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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