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An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.

Ben Okri

Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment.
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Dream Flower Strong
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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Healthy People Stories
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
a dream can be the highest point of a life
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Dream Highest Life
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
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
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Jazz Past Together
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories
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Mad Silence Stories
This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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Down Grows Like
The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
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Law Police World
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
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Asylums Cases Planet
Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do.
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Discovery Dream Exemptarty Stone Thing
To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. … That’s what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.
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Mind Perfect Story
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
Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.
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Soul Stories Three

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