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When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity’s chief instrument.

Ben Okri

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.
BEN OKRI

Circles Past Writing
a dream can be the highest point of a life
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Dream Highest Life
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
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
What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings?
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Beautiful Gun Reality
There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.
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Art Humanity Three
People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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Healthy People Stories
Don’t read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.
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Checks Everyone Read Reading
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
$Ben Okri Quote - The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them.$

The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live by stories, we also live in them.
BEN OKRI

Age Giving Stories
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
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
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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Anyone Home Homeless
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
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
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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Art Hide Magic Nothing

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