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Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.

Ben Okri

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Ben Okri
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: March 15
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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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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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The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
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There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.
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To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
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We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this is the time to dream The best dream of them all.
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I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.
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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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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.
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Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.
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When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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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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Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
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The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but will make you stronger. 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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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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I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.
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