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Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.

Ben Okri

I’m fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.
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Life Reality Running
Literature doesn’t have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians.
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Character Country Ghetto
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
The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it
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Dream Mean Reality
An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
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Darker Darkness Inner
We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
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Fiction Humanity Mean
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 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
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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Healthy People Stories
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
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
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Childhood Destiny Dream
I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.
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Again Down Up Change

Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.

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