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Ben Okri has 92 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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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,…
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Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been…
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Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it…
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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…
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The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live…
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Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
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In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And…
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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…
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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…
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To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not…
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Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life,…
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To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who…
— Unknown Author
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Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind.…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and…
— Chanakya
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The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no…
— Helen Keller
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An artist who has no faith is like a painter who was born blind.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every…
— Ray Comfort
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We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of…
— Ben Okri
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And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His…
— Bible
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And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered,…
— Bible
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Usually when those people say those ugly words they are talking about something they dont like, for example when a small baby…
— Babloo
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And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, 'Master,…
— Ritu Ghatourey
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..I was asked one time what would be worse than being born blind..I quickly replied: to have SIGHT and no VISION
— Unknown Author
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