“In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.”

— Joseph Campbell, book The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), Chapter 1

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American mythologist, writer and lecturer 1904–1987

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