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Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment.

Ben Okri

What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings?
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Beautiful Gun Reality
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
We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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Enchanted Spirit Time
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
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
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it’s about us, it’s about the reader.
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Absolutely Reader Writing
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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Enemy Expression Silence
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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Battle Fighting Men
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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Chaos Deities Eras
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
There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy… But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason…
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Fighting Heroism People
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 must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
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Able Men Sometimes
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

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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