Simone de Beauvoir
Philosopher, Writer
"As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed."
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Myth
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Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"The most important question anyone can ask is: What myth am I living?"
Joseph Campbell
Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
"A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life."
Jack Kerouac
Novelist, Poet
"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night."
Boris Pasternak
Poet, Novelist
"As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth."
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"Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them."
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"We live in our myths, we only endure reality."
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"We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage."
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"I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought."
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"The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?"
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"Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science."
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"Elvis Presley... had nothing to do with excellence, just myth."
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"Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths. By finding your own dream and following it through, it will lead you to the myth-world in which you live. But just as in dream, the subject and object, though they seem to be separate, are really the same."
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"The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in."
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"To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing."
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"Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities."
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"History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff."
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"Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them."
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"Originally, poetry creates the myth, while the prose-writer draws its portrait."
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"Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors."
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"Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream."
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"By myth I mean the arrangement of the incidents"
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"It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths."
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"The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity."
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"Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people."
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