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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.

Ben Okri

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends’ floors, was happy, was miserable.
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Homeless Miserable Wit
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
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Attention Common Magic
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
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Adversity Father Tranquil
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
If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft
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Office Perfect Writing
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
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
I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.
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Again Down Up Change
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest.
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Grief Miracle Suffering
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
If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.
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Afraid Dancer Love Spirit
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
I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they’ll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
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Book Reading Writing
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

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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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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