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Hands have their own language.

Simon Van Booy

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Simon Van Booy
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
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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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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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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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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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Some studies show that we're physically attracted, like animal attraction, to people that have a different immune system to us. So even though I love cologne, it's probably keeping me from finding a good mate.
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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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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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Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.
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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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You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.
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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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Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.
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Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.
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Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go.
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Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.
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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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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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Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things
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Sometimes, language is the sound of longing
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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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