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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

This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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Down Grows Like
What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings?
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Beautiful Gun Reality
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Childhood Destiny Dream
An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.
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Darker Darkness Inner
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
I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.
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Again Down Up Change
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
Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.
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Enemy Expression Silence
The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.
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Birds Fish Inside Magic Strange
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
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
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
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
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World

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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