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It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.

Ben Okri

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
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
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Asylums Cases Planet
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
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
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
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
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
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
I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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Capable Humans Knows
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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Chaos Deities Eras
An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
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Darker Darkness Inner
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Hide Magic Nothing
When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you’re suffering in.
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Realizing Suffering World
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
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

It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.

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It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.

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