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I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

Ben Okri

Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Childhood Destiny Dream
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
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Asylums Cases Planet
I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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Chaos Deities Eras
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
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Artist Imagination Secret
Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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Artist Broken Enemy
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
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Hide Magic Nothing
If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.
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Power Should Vision
There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy… But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason…
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Fighting Heroism People
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it’s about us, it’s about the reader.
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Absolutely Reader Writing
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
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Inspirational Love Sympathy
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
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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Order Smile Squares
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

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

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I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

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