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Ben Okri

  • b6982656339has quotedlast year
    I seem to make my own misery.
  • b6982656339has quoted2 months ago
    There’s wisdom in repetition, in going to the same place often, seeing the same painting again and again, re-reading a much loved book.’

    ‘Most people would say repetition is boring.’

    ‘The young maybe.’
  • b9812071251has quoted2 years ago
    When we are young we set out with dreams. In the middle of the journey of our lives we find perhaps that we have lost our way. At the end we find the origin; and we begin again.
  • Vanellopezaahas quotedlast year
    People are afraid of what they dont know.
  • Vanellopezaahas quotedlast year
    Some things only become clear much later.
  • Ika Sopiahhas quoted7 months ago
    Do you know what the luckiest thing is?

    No.

    It is to be at home everywhere.
  • ♡emma♡has quotedlast year
    ‘I think the first seeing, the first mis-reading is the truest.’

    ‘Why? You didn’t think so before. You used to say thrice is once.’

    ‘I still do. But I think something of our deeper selves lives in the magic of first encounters. We try later to recapture that first enchantment, but only rare experiences reawaken it.’
  • ♡emma♡has quotedlast year
    What can you do with all this beauty? The frosted peaks, the silver lake, the light, this dawn?’ Lao asked. ‘It fills my heart, I want to do something with it, and I don’t know what.’
  • Tanitia van der walthas quoted6 months ago
    But Omovo knew otherwise; he saw beneath the dignity, the fine clothes, and the feathered hat to the bright crack within and a threatening void

    Omovo's feelings towards his father

  • Tanitia van der walthas quoted6 months ago
    ‘I’m happy for you. You have your art. I don’t have anything. Except, maybe, you.’

    He is her hope

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