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I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

~Ben Okri

Topics: Again Changes Does Down Go Learned Life Through Up Up And Down Will

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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.

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Topics: About Authentic Capacity Create Endure Greater Love Most Our Overcome Suffering Than Thing To Love Transform Us

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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.

~Ben Okri

Topics: Adversity Always Bit Bore Challenging Courage Father Financial Gave Gifts Greatest Greatest Gifts Had He Laughing Life Man Me Periods Really Same Some Tranquil Which Witnessing

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The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

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Topics: Attention Away Both Common Doing Draw Magician Much Our Politician Really

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The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

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Topics: Fact Fundamental Human Imperfection Perfection Story Storytelling Tell Where

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We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.

~Ben Okri

Topics: Abyss Away Die Feet Her Like Mothers Never Nothing Opened Our Out Passing Ripped Standing Strangest Suddenly Thing Think Will World

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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.

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Topics: Begin Create Imagine Live Prefer Rather Realize Suffering Than World You

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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

Topics: Beginning Begins Circles Come Conscious Cycle Day Goes Hardly Life Moment My Life Particular Past Poetry Round Series Through Way Which Working Write Writing

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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

Topics: Act Acts Because Builds Castles Civilization Free Greatest Material Mind Possibilities Raw Raw Material Reading Takes

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We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

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Topics: Beings Definition Description Fallen Fiction Human Human Beings Humanity Mean Naturalism Too Very

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Biography

Nationality: Nigerian

Type: Poet

Born: March 15th, 1959

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