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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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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
— Saint Augustine
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter…
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Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere lost. Birds…
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It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.
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Stand and face me, my love,and scatter the grace in your eyes.
— Sappho
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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities…
— Friedrich Schiller
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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Scatter the clouds that hide The face of heaven, and show Where sweet peace doth abide, Where Truth and Beauty grow.
— Robert Bridges
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May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of…
— George Washington
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May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations…
— George Washington
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When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky.
— NoViolet Bulawayo
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