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The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

Ben Okri

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.
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Create Eventually Make People
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
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
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
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
Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.
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Soul Stories Three
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
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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Dream Flower Strong
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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Healthy People Stories
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Magic Nothing
Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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Checks Everyone Read Reading
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
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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Enemy Expression Silence
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
A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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Battle Fighting Men

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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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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