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I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

Simon Van Booy

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Simon Van Booy
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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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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Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same thing and has to do with being loved.
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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 didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.
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Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go.
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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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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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Every moment is the paradox of now or never.
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