-Stii de ce nu pot sfarsi nici o carte? Pentru ca toate eroinele seamana cu tine, si n-am curajul sa te descriu, sa fac literatura din dragostea asta… - Mircea Eliade

It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected.

Bunaoara, doctorul Tataru ar fi spus o data, într-un grup de medici, ca în Paradis Adam si Eva erau regenerati periodic, asadar întineriti, prin neoplasm; ca numai dupa ce-a intervenit pacatul originar, corpul omenesc a pierdut secretul regenerarii periodice si deci al tineretii fara de batrînete.

The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.