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Creativity is the art of the impossible

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Ben Okri
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: March 15
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Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Creativity
Impossible
Art

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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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Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. 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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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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A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.
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