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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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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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We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight of each other's stones.
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But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.
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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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For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.
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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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I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.
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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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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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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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The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
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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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You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.
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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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They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands
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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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It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.
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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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Coincidences mean you're on the right path.
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