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Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. (Quote by - Italo Calvino)

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology (Quote by - Carl Gustav Jung)

Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race. (Quote by - Stanley Kunitz)

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. (Quote by - Paul Ricoeur)

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you. (Quote by - Ray Bradbury)

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. (Quote by - E. L. Doctorow)

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. (Quote by - Joseph Campbell)

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. (Quote by - Alan Watts)

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. (Quote by - Roland Barthes)

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors. (Quote by - Walter Lippman)

Myth is, after all, the neverending story. (Quote by - Joan D. Vinge)

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