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Joseph Campbell Quotes: A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.
         

A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.


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