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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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Ben Okri
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: March 15
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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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When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.
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This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we're born into stories. I say we're also born from stories.
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The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
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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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To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.
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Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.
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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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Beware of the stories you read or tell subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.
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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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Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
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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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We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.
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I know that human beings are capable of anything.
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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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I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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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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To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
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When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.
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