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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

I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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Capable Humans Knows
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
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
I’m fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.
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Life Reality Running
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
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
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
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered before, people you wouldn’t care to sit next to in a train.
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Character Creativity Reading
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Hide Magic Nothing
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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Healthy People Stories
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
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
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Attention Common Magic
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
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Childhood Destiny Dream
Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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Checks Everyone Read Reading

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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