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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be gre

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"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering"

- Ben Okri

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This quote is written / told by Ben Okri somewhere between March 15, 1959 and today. He/she was a famous Poet from Nigeria. The author also have 16 other quotes.

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