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.
BEN OKRII am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
More Ben Okri Quotes
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We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
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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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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
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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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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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I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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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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Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft
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An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
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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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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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The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
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What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.
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