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A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation… Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.

Ben Okri

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Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

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Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.
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Stories
If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.
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Dancer
A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
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Able Sometimes
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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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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Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do.

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Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do.
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Discovery Exemptarty Stone Thing
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it’s about us, it’s about the reader.

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The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it’s about us, it’s about the reader.
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Absolutely Reader
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

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The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
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What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

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What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.
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Make
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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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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Should
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
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Asylums Cases
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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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
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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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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Stories Three
A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

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A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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Fighting
a dream can be the highest point of a life

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a dream can be the highest point of a life
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Highest
You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your destiny. This life of yours will be full of riddles. You will be protected and you will never be alone.
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Rivers
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Thing

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation… Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.

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