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I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.

Ben Okri

It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
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Agreement Important Writing
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
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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Enemy Expression Silence
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
A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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Battle Fighting Men
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
You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your destiny. This life of yours will be full of riddles. You will be protected and you will never be alone.
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Cause Destiny Rivers
I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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Capable Humans Knows
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
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Hide Magic Nothing
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
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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Country Home Literature
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
I’m conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There’s hardly a day that goes past on which I don’t write poetry.
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Circles Past Writing

I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.

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