Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
BEN OKRISuccess will never confuse you of scatter your spirit, but will make you fly higher into the good sunlight. Your life will always surprise you.
More Ben Okri Quotes
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Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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People that don’t exist, places you’ve never visited, enigmatic fates, all come to life in the mind, painted into existence by the reader’s creative powers. In this way the creativity of the writer calls up the creativity of the reader. Reading is never passive.
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An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
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The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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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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A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
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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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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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Creativity is the art of the impossible
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People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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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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Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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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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