MOYERS: So joy and pain are in love.
CAMPBELL: Yes. Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain.
MOYERS: But love bears all things.
CAMPBELL: Love itself is a pain, you might say - the pain of being truly alive.
- Excerpt from The Power of Myth, 257
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