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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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Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.
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The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.
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Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.
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Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go.
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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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