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To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.

Ben Okri

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
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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Inspiring Night Water
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
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Asylums Cases Planet
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
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
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.
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Art Humanity Three
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 learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.
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Again Down Up Change
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
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
Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Around Destiny Expected Riddle Way
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
A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation… Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.
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Heart Mad People
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
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Attention Common Magic

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