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Astonishing the Gods

From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: a deceptively simple modern fable with an ancient origin. A young man finds himself living among invisible beings who have built a utopia based on one principle: that we must repeat or suffer every experience until we ex

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“I love your silence. It is so wise. It listens. It invites warmth. I love your loneliness. It is brave. It makes the universe want to protect you. You have the loneliness that all true heroes have, a loneliness that is a deep sea, within which the fishes of mystery dwell. I love your quest. It is no…”

— Ben Okri, amazon.com

Tagged: admiration, Poetic, Love, inspiration

“I love your silence. It is so wise. It listens. It invites warmth.”

— Ben Okri, amazon.com

Tagged: Silence, Love, admiration, wise, Listening

“I love your silence. It is so wise. It listens. It invites warmth.”

— Ben Okri, amazon.com

Tagged: Silence, Listener, Comfort

“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.”

— Ben Okri, amazon.com

Tagged: Secrets, Anynomous, Unnamed