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Simon Van Booy
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.
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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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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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I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.
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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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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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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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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 think you can love someone and be infatuated with them, too. But infatuation is immediate, while the sort of love in the West is something you build with someone. It's a trust.
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Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things
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Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.
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Every moment is the paradox of now or never.
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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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Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.
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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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Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.
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For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.
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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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I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life.
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In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.
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