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The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

Ben Okri

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
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
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
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
a dream can be the highest point of a life
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Dream Highest Life
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
People that don’t exist, places you’ve never visited, enigmatic fates, all come to life in the mind, painted into existence by the reader’s creative powers. In this way the creativity of the writer calls up the creativity of the reader. Reading is never passive.
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Come Creative Mind Pianetd Power
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
This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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Down Grows Like
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
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
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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Chaos Deities Eras
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
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
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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Realizing Suffering World
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

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

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