Ben Okri - The Famished Road (1991)

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One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.

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A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

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This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.

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The sun bared the reality of our lives and everything was so harsh it was a mystery that we could understand and care for one another or for anything at all.

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Many people have walked out of life because they stopped seeing it. Many have fallen into the abyss because they were looking for solid ground, for certainties. Happy are those who are still, and to whom things come.

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We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.

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The world is full of riddles that only the dead can answer.

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