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Ben Okri

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
A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation… Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.
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Heart Mad People
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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Order Smile Squares
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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Enemy Expression Silence
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
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
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
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
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
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
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
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
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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Healthy People Stories
The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.
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Birds Fish Inside Magic Strange
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories

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