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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

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
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Fighting People Share
We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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Enchanted Spirit Time
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
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Fiction Humanity Mean
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Magic Nothing
Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes.
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Escape Life Press Strange
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
Our time here is magic! It’s the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It’s the only space.
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Beautiful Space Unique
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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Enemy Expression Silence
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
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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Order Smile Squares
Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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Checks Everyone Read Reading
I’m fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.
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Life Reality Running
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
This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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Down Grows Like

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