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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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Ben Okri
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: March 15
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Journalist
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True
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Love
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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 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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I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.
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Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.
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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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When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.
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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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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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People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.
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I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
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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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A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.
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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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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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Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.
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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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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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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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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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