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

Ben Okri

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
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 magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
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Attention Common Magic
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
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
Don’t neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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Gold Neglect Yards
I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
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
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
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Asylums Cases Planet
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
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
This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories. I say we’re also born from stories.
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Ocean People Stories
If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.
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Power Should Vision
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
a dream can be the highest point of a life
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Dream Highest Life
We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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Enchanted Spirit Time

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