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

Ben Okri

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends’ floors, was happy, was miserable.
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Homeless Miserable Wit
This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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Down Grows Like
I was going to be a scientist.
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Dream Going Job Scientist
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
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
When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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Inventing Reality Stop Thing
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
The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.
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Birds Fish Inside Magic Strange
I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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Order Smile Squares
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
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
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
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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Cause Destiny Rivers
a dream can be the highest point of a life
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Dream Highest Life
Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn’t have expected.
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Childhood Destiny Dream
What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.
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Create Eventually Make People

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