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A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

Ben Okri

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Hide Magic Nothing
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
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.
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Hungry Rivers World
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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Enemy Expression Silence
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 greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
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
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Childhood Destiny Dream
A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
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Able Men Sometimes
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
Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Around Destiny Expected Riddle Way
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
People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.
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Create History People Protected Transformer
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
This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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Down Grows Like

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