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A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

Ben Okri

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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Escape Life Press Strange
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
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Artist Imagination Secret
A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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Battle Fighting Men
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
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Asylums Cases Planet
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
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
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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Agreement Important Writing
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
I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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Capable Humans Knows
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
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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Chaos Deities Eras
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
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

A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

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