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A collection of quotes by Joseph Campbell, source uncertai.

Joseph Campbell was an American writer and mythologist, born on March 26, 1904. He is best known for his work in comparative mythology and religion, exploring the universal themes and patterns that underlie the diverse cultural myths and rituals around the world. Campbell authored numerous books, including the influential "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" and "The Power of Myth," and he also taught at Sarah Lawrence College for many years. His work has had a profound impact on fields such as literature, psychology, and the study of human culture. (Source: N/A)

It seems to have had an order, to have been composed by someone, and those events that were merely accidental when they happened turn out to be the main elements in a consistent plot. Who composed this plot? Just as your dreams are composed, so your whole life has been composed by the will within you. Just as the people who you met by chance became effective agents in the structuring of your life, so you have been the agent in the structuring of other lives. And the whole thing gears together like one big symphony, everything influencing and structuring everything else. It's as though our lives were the dream of a single dreamer in which all of the dream characters are dreaming too. And so everything links to everything else moved out of the will in nature...It is as though there were an intention behind it yet it is all by chance. None of us lives the life that he had intended.

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