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Quotes from Astonishing the Gods — Ben Okri

born 1959 Nigeria

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

Astonishing the Gods (1995)

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

Astonishing the Gods (1995)

I love your loneliness. It is brave. It makes the universe want to protect you.

Astonishing the Gods (1995)

I kept looking forward the answer to things. I kept looking, and I never saw, and I became lost. I lost myself, lost my own reality.

Astonishing the Gods (1995)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ben Okri (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.