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I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.

Ben Okri

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
Our time here is magic! It’s the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It’s the only space.
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Beautiful Space Unique
An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
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Darker Darkness Inner
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
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
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Asylums Cases Planet
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
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
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
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Facts Hint Perfection
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
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
$Ben Okri Quote - The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them.$

The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them.
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Age Giving Stories
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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Enemy Expression Silence
I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
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Jazz Past Together

I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.

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