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Beginning Quote by Ben Okri

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“The greatest stories are those that resonate our beginnings and intuit our endings, our mysterious origins and our numinous destinies, and dissolve them both into one.”

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Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence.

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I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

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If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.

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Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

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Some projects feel like the stars are aligning for them from the very beginning.

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