An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
BEN OKRIThis earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories. I say we’re also born from stories.
More Ben Okri Quotes
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Creativity is the art of the impossible
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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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What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.
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We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It’s just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there.
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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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Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
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There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy… But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason…
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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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In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.
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I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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I was going to be a scientist.
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Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.
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The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
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This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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