Destroying Something Quotes by Roberto Calasso

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• The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts…
• Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.
• The gods are fugitive guests of literature.
• Myth is never a single story. It is always a tree with many branches.
• Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.
• The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author.
• Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about…
• We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is…

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