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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

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
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
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Adversity Father Tranquil
We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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Enchanted Spirit Time
Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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Artist Broken Enemy
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
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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Order Smile Squares
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
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered before, people you wouldn’t care to sit next to in a train.
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Character Creativity Reading
If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.
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Power Should Vision
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
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
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
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

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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