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Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

Ben Okri

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
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
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
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
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
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
The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.
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Birds Fish Inside Magic Strange
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
A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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Battle Fighting Men
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
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Hide Magic Nothing
I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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Capable Humans Knows
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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Healthy People Stories
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Childhood Destiny Dream

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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