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Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

Ben Okri

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 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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Afraid Dancer Love Spirit
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
I’m conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There’s hardly a day that goes past on which I don’t write poetry.
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Circles Past Writing
I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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Capable Humans Knows
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
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Attention Common Magic
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
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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Hungry Rivers World
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Hide Magic Nothing
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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Order Smile Squares
Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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Checks Everyone Read Reading
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
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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Facts Hint Perfection
A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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Battle Fighting Men
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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Good Higher Success Surprise
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered before, people you wouldn’t care to sit next to in a train.
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