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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.

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
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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Healthy People Stories
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Hide Magic Nothing
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
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
People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.
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Create History People Protected Transformer
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
The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it
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Dream Mean Reality
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
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
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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Chaos Deities Eras
Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you’ve got left is your belief in the imagination.
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Ghetto Imagination Vibrancy
I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
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

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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