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Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.

Ben Okri

I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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Order Smile Squares
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
An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
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Darker Darkness Inner
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
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Magic Nothing
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories
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Mad Silence Stories
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
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
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest.
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Grief Miracle Suffering
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 man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
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Able Men Sometimes
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
To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. … That’s what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.
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Mind Perfect Story
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Childhood Destiny Dream

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