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Simon Van Booy
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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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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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 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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When somebody leaves this plane—or, if you like, goes into another room—those left behind sometimes try and stop loving—but this is a mistake, because even if you have loved only once in your life, you’re ruined.
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Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.
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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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Every moment is the paradox of now or never.
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Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.
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Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go.
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For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.
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They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands
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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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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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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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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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I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.
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Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.
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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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Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.
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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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