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

Ben Okri

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
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
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Magic Nothing
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
There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy… But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason…
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Fighting Heroism People
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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Order Smile Squares
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
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
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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Checks Everyone Read Reading
We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.
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Dream Inspirational Real
I’m fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.
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Life Reality Running
The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it
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Dream Mean Reality
I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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Capable Humans Knows
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
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
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Jazz Past Together

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