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Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do.

Ben Okri

I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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Capable Humans Knows
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
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Asylums Cases Planet
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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Artist Broken Enemy
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
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Hide Magic Nothing
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they’ll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
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Book Reading Writing
The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
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Karma Law Simple
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
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Facts Hint Perfection
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
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
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it’s about us, it’s about the reader.
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Absolutely Reader Writing
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
One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, or we are also living the stories we planted – knowingly or unknowingly – in ourselves. We live stories that either give our lives meaning or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives.’
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Another Ourselves Planted Unknowingly
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
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

Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do.

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Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do.

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