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The faculty for myth is innate in the human race. It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the career of those who have at all distinguished themselves from their fellows, and invents a legend to which it then attaches a fanatical belief. It is the protest of romance against the commonplace of life. The incidents of the legend become the hero’s surest passport to immortality.

—Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

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By Aristotle The Geek, on March 10, 2011 at 12:17 am, under books, passages. Tags: "The Moon and Sixpence", legend, myth, Somerset Maugham, W. Somerset Maugham. No Comments

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