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

Ben Okri

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
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
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
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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Order Smile Squares
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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Belief Quite Situation Something
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
I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.
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Again Down Up Change
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 Dream Exemptarty Stone Thing
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
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Country Home Literature
Our time here is magic! It’s the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It’s the only space.
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Beautiful Space Unique
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
Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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Artist Broken Enemy
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Hide Magic Nothing
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
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Jazz Past Together
I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
a dream can be the highest point of a life
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Dream Highest Life

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