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Simon Van Booy
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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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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I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.
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Hands have their own language.
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If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.
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Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.
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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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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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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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Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.
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Sometimes, language is the sound of longing
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For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.
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For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.
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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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They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands
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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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Coincidences mean you're on the right path.
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I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.
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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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Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.
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Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.
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