Dorothy Norman Quotes

• Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we wage to release the creative energies within ourselves and in the world.

  Dorothy Norman

  Hero, Creative, Battle

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• Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?

  Dorothy Norman

  Dream, Artist, Self

  Dorothy Norman (1969). “The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol”, Anchor Books

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• To adopt the posture of the hero is the most unheroic of all acts.

  Dorothy Norman

  Hero, Posture

  Dorothy Norman (1969). “The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol”, Anchor Books

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• Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.

  Dorothy Norman

  Hero, Men, Quests

  Dorothy Norman (1969). “The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol”, Anchor Books

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• Without Satan, no Christ.

  Dorothy Norman

  Devil, Satan, Christ

  Dorothy Norman (1969). “The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol”, Anchor Books

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• Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire.

  Dorothy Norman

  Fear, Loss, Fire

  Dorothy Norman (1969). “The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol”, Anchor Books

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