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The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

Simon Van Booy

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Simon Van Booy
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.
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The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.
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For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.
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Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
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Coincidences mean you're on the right path.
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Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others - spread as wide as history itself - who have felt the same way we have, who have occupied the rooms we find ourselves locked in at various points of our lives.
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