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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

We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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Enchanted Spirit Time
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
The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
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Law Police World
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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Capable Humans Knows
This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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Down Grows Like
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
Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you.
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Good Higher Success Surprise
Literature doesn’t have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians.
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Character Country Ghetto
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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Mad Silence Stories
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
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Asylums Cases Planet
Our time here is magic! It’s the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It’s the only space.
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Beautiful Space Unique
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Childhood Destiny Dream
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

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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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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