A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
BEN OKRIMagic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
More Ben Okri Quotes
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Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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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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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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We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
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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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To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they
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Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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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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I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.
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A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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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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One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, or we are also living the stories we planted – knowingly or unknowingly – in ourselves. We live stories that either give our lives meaning or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives.’
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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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