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Joseph Campbell Quotes: Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.
         

Every people is a chosen people in its own mind. And it is rather amusing that their name for themselves usually means mankind.


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If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.



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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.



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

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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