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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
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
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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Artist Imagination Secret
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.
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Chaos Deities Eras
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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Beautiful Despair Secret
A man’s greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.
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Battle Fighting Men
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
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Hide Magic Nothing
It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.
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Agreement Important Writing
I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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Capable Humans Knows
Creativity is the art of the impossible
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Art Creativity Impossible
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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Power Should Vision
One way or another we are living the stories planted in us early or along the way, or we are also living the stories we planted – knowingly or unknowingly – in ourselves. We live stories that either give our lives meaning or negate it with meaninglessness. If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives.’
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Another Ourselves Planted Unknowingly
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
We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.
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Enchanted Spirit Time
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

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