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When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you’re suffering in.

Ben Okri

Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you’ve got left is your belief in the imagination.
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Ghetto Imagination Vibrancy
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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Enemy Expression Silence
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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Chaos Deities Eras
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
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
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
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
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
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Country Home Literature
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
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
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they
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Art Poison Stories
We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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Enchanted Spirit Time
If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.
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Power Should Vision
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
An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
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Darker Darkness Inner

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you’re suffering in.

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When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you’re suffering in.

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