"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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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.

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