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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
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
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Country Home Literature
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
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The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them.
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Age Giving Stories
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they
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Art Poison Stories
An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
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Darker Darkness Inner
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
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Jazz Past Together
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
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
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
To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. … That’s what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.
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Mind Perfect Story
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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Chaos Deities Eras
I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.
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Again Down Up Change
a dream can be the highest point of a life
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Dream Highest Life
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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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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