A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
BEN OKRIWe are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
More Ben Okri Quotes
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We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.
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Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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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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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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I was going to be a scientist.
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Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes.
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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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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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A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
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The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it
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I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.
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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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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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We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
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Creativity is the art of the impossible
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