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Ben Okri

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
One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits.
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Dream Ocean Rocks
A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
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Able Men Sometimes
There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy… But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason…
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Fighting Heroism People
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they’ll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
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Book Reading Writing
Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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Checks Everyone Read Reading
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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Order Smile Squares
Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment.
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Dream Flower Strong
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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Battle Fighting Men
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Magic Nothing
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
Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.
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Soul Stories Three
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Around Destiny Expected Riddle Way
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Hide Magic Nothing

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