Ben Okri - Astonishing the gods (1995)

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I think our childhood goes back thousands of years, farther back than the memory of any race.

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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.

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The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

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We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.

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When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

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