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"The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous."
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
"Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken."
"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."
"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."
Explore more quotes by Ben Okri
"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."
"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."
"Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."
"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."
"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."
"Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it."
"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."
"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."
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