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

Ben Okri

To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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Chaos Deities Eras
The greatest religions convert the world through stories.
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Converting Stories World
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
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
Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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Checks Everyone Read Reading
A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
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Able Men Sometimes
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
I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
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
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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Order Smile Squares
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
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
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Magic Nothing
I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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Capable Humans Knows
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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Soul Stories Three

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