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There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

Ben Okri

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Hide Magic Nothing
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
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
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully conscious of the importance of their gifts, and who are irresponsible in the application of their art: they
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Art Poison Stories
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
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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Chaos Deities Eras
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
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
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Fear Heart Telling Stories
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
This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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Down Grows Like
When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you’re suffering in.
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Realizing Suffering World
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
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
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

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