I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
BEN OKRIThe law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
More Ben Okri Quotes
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In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.
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The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
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I was going to be a scientist.
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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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I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
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a dream can be the highest point of a life
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We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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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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The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
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An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
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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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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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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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You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your destiny. This life of yours will be full of riddles. You will be protected and you will never be alone.
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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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