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Ben Okri

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 greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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Order Smile Squares
a dream can be the highest point of a life
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Dream Highest Life
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
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
Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.
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Inspiring Night Water
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
One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits.
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Dream Ocean Rocks
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
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
We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It’s just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there.
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Destiny Dream Fate
This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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Down Grows Like
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
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Childhood Destiny Dream

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