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I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myse

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people. – Ben Okri

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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man. – Ben Okri

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Courage
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The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like. – Ben Okri

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Future
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Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger. – Ben Okri

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Fear
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Beauty
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It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesnt mean it does not exist. – Margaret Cho

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Beauty

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. – Thomas Mann

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Beauty

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness. – John Keats

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Beauty

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On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity. – Mark Udall

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For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance. – Paul Davies

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I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise. – Jessica Savitch

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