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If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.

Ben Okri

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
a dream can be the highest point of a life
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Dream Highest Life
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.
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Afraid Dancer Love Spirit
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Magic Nothing
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
I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
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Fighting People Share
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
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
Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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Artist Broken Enemy
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
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
I’m conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There’s hardly a day that goes past on which I don’t write poetry.
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Circles Past Writing
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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Enemy Expression Silence
It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
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Agreement Important Writing

If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.

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