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There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth

Simon Van Booy

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Simon Van Booy
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.
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Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now. And I'm much less likely to be indifferent. For me, indifference is the end of life.
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Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.
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I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.
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It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt.
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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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I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.
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