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Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.

Ben Okri

Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don't try and press it down. Don't hide from it. Don't escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That's the way life goes.

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Each moment offered us clarity and liberation but we settled for the comforting shapes of legends, no matter how monstrous or useless.

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Ben Okri

Ben Okri

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Born: March 15, 1959 (age 67)

Bio: Ben Okri is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Okri is considered one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post-colonial traditions and has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez.

Known for:

The Famished Road (1991)
Starbook (2007)
A Way of Being Free (1997)
Astonishing the gods (1995)
Songs of Enchantment (1993)

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