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Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

Ben Okri

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Magic Nothing
We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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Enchanted Spirit Time
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
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
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
People that don’t exist, places you’ve never visited, enigmatic fates, all come to life in the mind, painted into existence by the reader’s creative powers. In this way the creativity of the writer calls up the creativity of the reader. Reading is never passive.
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Come Creative Mind Pianetd Power
Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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Artist Broken Enemy
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Childhood Destiny Dream
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
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Law Police World
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
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

Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

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