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a dream can be the highest point of a life

Ben Okri

The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it
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Dream Mean Reality
This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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Down Grows Like
I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
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Fighting People Share
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
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
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
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
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
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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Enemy Expression Silence
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.
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Create Eventually Make People
Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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Checks Everyone Read Reading
We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.
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Dream Inspirational Real
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
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Definitions Destination Require Stop
I’m fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.
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Life Reality Running
If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.
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Power Should Vision

a dream can be the highest point of a life

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