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Ben Okri

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories
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Mad Silence Stories
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
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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Healthy People Stories
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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Destiny Dream Fate
I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
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Darker Darkness Inner
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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Chaos Deities Eras
Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you’ve got left is your belief in the imagination.
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Ghetto Imagination Vibrancy
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
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Adversity Father Tranquil
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest.
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Grief Miracle Suffering
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
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
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 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
Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.
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Soul Stories Three
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

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