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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

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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Realizing Suffering World
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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Chaos Deities Eras
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
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
You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your destiny. This life of yours will be full of riddles. You will be protected and you will never be alone.
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Cause Destiny Rivers
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
I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Hide Magic Nothing
Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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Checks Everyone Read Reading
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
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
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
People that don’t exist, places you’ve never visited, enigmatic fates, all come to life in the mind, painted into existence by the reader’s creative powers. In this way the creativity of the writer calls up the creativity of the reader. Reading is never passive.
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Come Creative Mind Pianetd Power
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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Artist Broken Enemy

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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