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One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits.

Ben Okri

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
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
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
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
Success will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you.
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Good Higher Success Surprise
A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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Battle Fighting Men
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
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Definitions Destination Require Stop
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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Absolutely Reader Writing
I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
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Fighting People Share
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
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Fiction Humanity Mean
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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Healthy People Stories
$Ben Okri Quote - The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them.$

The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them.
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Age Giving Stories
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It’s just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there.
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Destiny Dream Fate
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
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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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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