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Simon Van Booy
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.
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I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.
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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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It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.
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Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.
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Some studies show that we're physically attracted, like animal attraction, to people that have a different immune system to us. So even though I love cologne, it's probably keeping me from finding a good mate.
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They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands
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But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?
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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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Hands have their own language.
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Coincidences mean you're on the right path.
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When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols.
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Dreamers conquered the world long ago.
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Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.
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For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.
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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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Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here.
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You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.
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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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Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.
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