Simon Van Booy Quotes
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I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.
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Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.
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Every moment is the paradox of now or never.
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Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.
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If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment.
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There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth
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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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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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You can't put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is part of the excitement and we can't have one without the other.
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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 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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I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving.
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Hands have their own language.
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Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come.
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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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Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.
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Athens is the birthplace of modern tragedy. In the Greek tragic plays, the tableau of the characters would become a statue, like the statue of Oedipus reaching up to the Gods with blood spilling out of his eyes. I love the way the Greeks would immortalize experience. Things that all of us feel.
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When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no one around him scurried for cover. For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.
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Dreamers conquered the world long ago.
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When I was in my early twenties, I fell in love at least 20 times a day. You have to be with someone where you think: if the world was full of people like you, I could not be monogamous. As you get older, you get to know yourself a little more. The older you get, the more you realize what you need. And you also realize how your choice in relationships is influenced by how you grew up. Now I feel like I've explored the dynamic of how I grew up, and I'm free to find someone who's really going to be a wonderful companion.
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Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things
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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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Sometimes, language is the sound of longing
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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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Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.
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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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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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Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned out, men and women chose whom they would love based on worldly needs, and then reenacted the rituals and feelings of that first pure experience - nursed the flames that once burned of their own accord
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Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.
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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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