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Ben Okri

"The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things."

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"The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things."

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Amber Hurdle

"The Law of Cause and Effect is as active in your life as the Law of Gravity. It teaches us that for every action there is a reaction."

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Amber Hurdle

"Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race."

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Amber Hurdle

"But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at the exact same price. A certain island has a law that forbids anyone from removing its fruit. And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders."

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Amber Hurdle

"The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law."

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Amber Hurdle

"The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice."

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Amber Hurdle

"Modesty forbids what the law does not."

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Amber Hurdle

"My biggest problem is that my flight is to depart from Denpasar International Airport in Indonesia, where the penalty for drug trafficking is death by firing squad."

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Amber Hurdle

"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."

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Amber Hurdle

"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."

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Amber Hurdle

"Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw."

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

Fact

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

Attention

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Ben Okri
"Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger."

Heart

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Ben Okri
"The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure."

Imagination

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Ben Okri
"Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space."

Time

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Ben Okri
"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."

Love

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

Friendship

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Ben Okri
"Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."

Art

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Ben Okri
"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."

Home

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Ben Okri
"Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible."

Art

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