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What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

Ben Okri

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 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
We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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Enchanted Spirit Time
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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Heart Mad People
I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
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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Come Creative Mind Pianetd Power
Literature doesn’t have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians.
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Character Country Ghetto
a dream can be the highest point of a life
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Dream Highest Life
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Childhood Destiny Dream
The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
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Karma Law Simple
To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. … That’s what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.
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Mind Perfect Story
Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.
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Inspiring Night Water
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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Enemy Expression Silence
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
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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Cause Destiny Rivers

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