Simon Van Booy quotes - page 3

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. (Simon Van Booy)
The present grows within the boundaries of the past. View quote
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I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone. View quote
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Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here. View quote
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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? View quote
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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. View quote
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Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you. View quote
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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. View quote
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Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land. View quote
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It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet. View quote
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The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us. (Simon Van Booy)
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. View quote
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I don't see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying. View quote
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Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept. View quote
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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. View quote
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We see in others what we want and what we fear. View quote
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I didn't know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed. View quote
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Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness. When it leaves to find others, the difficulty begins because we are faced with our humanness, our past, our very being. View quote
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The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we're not the first to die. View quote
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Love requires imagination more than experience. View quote
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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. (Simon Van Booy)
Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them. View quote
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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. View quote
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