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A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

Ben Okri

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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Chaos Deities Eras
Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you.
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Good Higher Success Surprise
I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren’t allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.
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Children Dream Kids
We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It’s just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there.
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Destiny Dream Fate
The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
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Karma Law Simple
There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.
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Art Humanity Three
An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
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Darker Darkness Inner
It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
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Agreement Important Writing
I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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Capable Humans Knows
We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.
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Dream Inspirational Real
When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you’re suffering in.
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Realizing Suffering World
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
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Facts Hint Perfection
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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Healthy People Stories
We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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Enchanted Spirit Time
Don’t despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
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Beautiful Despair Secret
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World

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