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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

Ben Okri

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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Beautiful Space Unique
We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It’s just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there.
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Destiny Dream Fate
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
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you’ve got left is your belief in the imagination.
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Ghetto Imagination Vibrancy
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
Don’t despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
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Beautiful Despair Secret
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
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Inspirational Love Sympathy
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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Enemy Expression Silence
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
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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Chaos Deities Eras
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
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
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Magic Nothing

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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