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Creativity is the art of the impossible

Ben Okri

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
What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings?
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Beautiful Gun Reality
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
An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
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Darker Darkness Inner
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
I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends’ floors, was happy, was miserable.
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Homeless Miserable Wit
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
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
A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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Battle Fighting Men
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
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
I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren’t allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.
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Children Dream Kids
We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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Enchanted Spirit Time
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
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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Enemy Expression Silence

Creativity is the art of the impossible

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