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The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
- Ben Okri
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#Life
#Love
#Time
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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.
- Ben Okri
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#Life
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
- Ben Okri
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#Father
#Greatest
#Me
I know that human beings are capable of anything.
- Ben Okri
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#Beings
#Capable
#Human
#Know
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.
- Ben Okri
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#Fewer
#Imagination
#Tools
#Will
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
- Ben Okri
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#Home
#Homeless
#Say
#Who
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
- Ben Okri
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#Conquer
#Fear
#Heart
#Know
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.
- Ben Okri
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#Change
#Long
#Road
#Stress
I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness that any worldview is superstitious.
- Ben Okri
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#Me
#Seeing
#Way
#World
To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.
- Ben Okri
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#Quite
#Something
#Through
#Your
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.
- Ben Okri
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#Beautiful
#Best
#See
Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
- Ben Okri
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#Creativity
#Impossible
#Politics
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
- Ben Okri
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#Becomes
#Hide
#Magic
#Nothing
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.
- Ben Okri
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#Inspirational
#Space
#Time
#True
I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.
- Ben Okri
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#Go
#Life
#Up And Down
#Will
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
- Ben Okri
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#Jazz
#Past
#Strange
#Together
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
- Ben Okri
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#Imperfection
#Perfection
#Story
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
- Ben Okri
#Attention
#Common
#Doing
#Politician
Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
- Ben Okri
#Civilization
#Free
#Mind
#Possibilities
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
- Ben Okri
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#Inspirational
#Love
#Suffering
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.
- Ben Okri
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#Live
#Suffering
#World
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.
- Ben Okri
#Adversity
#Courage
#Father's Day
#Life
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