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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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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 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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The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
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I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.
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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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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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Every moment is the paradox of now or never.
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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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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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Hands have their own language.
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Sometimes, language is the sound of longing
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But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?
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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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Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here.
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Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.
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Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go.
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