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Quotes from The Age of Magic — Ben Okri

born 1959 Nigeria

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8 quotes

"Writing is a way of paying attention to life."

The Age of Magic (2014)

"A writer's task is not merely to describe the world but to deepen our way of seeing it."

The Age of Magic (2014)

"We have no instrument by which to record the absolute nature of reality, because whatever instrument we use is filtered through consciousness."

The Age of Magic (2014)

Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.

The Age of Magic (2014)

"Maybe one of the worst things that we can do is to diminish the possibility of the universe in our insistence on our description of it."

The Age of Magic (2014)

"When I was about three years old... I realised that words could move the power in a room."

The Age of Magic (2014)

Inverse of the word live is evil.

The Age of Magic (2014)

What if by sheer repetition we become the person we most often pretend to be? Does that mean there is no authentic self? Are we made of habits, compressed by time, like layered rocks?

The Age of Magic (2014)

Attribution

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