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The Hero’s Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
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“My hope,” he wrote in his preface to The Hero with a Thousand Faces, “is that a comparative elucidation may contribute to the perhaps not-quite-desperate cause of those forces that are working in the present world for unification, not in
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“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
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“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
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“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
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“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”
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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
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A book group devoted to reading and discussing novellas (one a month). Definition of NOVELLA 1) a story with a compact and pointed plot 2) a work of ...more
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