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A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

Ben Okri

a dream can be the highest point of a life
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Dream Highest Life
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest.
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Grief Miracle Suffering
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
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
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Adversity Father Tranquil
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.
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Asylums Cases Planet
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they’ll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
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Book Reading Writing
This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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Down Grows Like
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 Writing
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
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Definitions Destination Require Stop
We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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Enchanted Spirit Time
Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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Artist Broken Enemy
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
We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.
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Dream Inspirational Real
One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits.
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Dream Ocean Rocks
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’m fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.
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Life Reality Running

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