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• There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth

  Simon Van Booy

  Lying, Circumstances

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• For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel
  like home.

  Simon Van Booy

  Home, Cities, Lost

  Simon van Booy (2014). “Everything Beautiful Began After”, p.16, Oneworld Publications

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• When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols.

  Simon Van Booy

  Beautiful, Children, Father

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.27, Oneworld Publications

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• Sometimes, language is the sound of longing

  Simon Van Booy

  Sound, Language, Sometimes

  Simon Van Booy (2007). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, Turtle Point Pr

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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.

  Simon Van Booy

  Taken, Thinking, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

  Simon Van Booy

  Enemy, Trying, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things

  Simon Van Booy

  Everyday Things, Everyday

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• Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.

  Simon Van Booy

  Comfort, Routine, Desperate

  Simon van Booy (2013). “The Illusion of Separateness”, p.109, Oneworld Publications

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• I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.

  Simon Van Booy

  Harder, Wanted, Being Trusted

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.20, Oneworld Publications

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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.

  Simon Van Booy

  Lonely, Rain, Fall

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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.

  Simon Van Booy

  Grief, Trying, Body

  Simon van Booy (2013). “The Illusion of Separateness”, p.89, Oneworld Publications

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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.

  Simon Van Booy

  Falling In Love, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Simon Van Booy

  Mean, Successful, Records

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• I want to feel it somehow happened like that because things happen for a reason. I want to believe this more than anything because if it were just an accident, then God must have died before he could finish the world.

  Simon Van Booy

  Believe, World, Want

  Simon Van Booy (2007). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, Turtle Point Pr

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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.

  Simon Van Booy

  Distance, Love Is, Thinking

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.270, Oneworld Publications

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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.

  Simon Van Booy

  Love Is, Next, Excitement

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.75, Oneworld Publications

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• Relationships break down, because it's about self. But when you take the "I" out of it and you're like, how can I make them happy, that means sacrifice. I think you have to be prepared to sacrifice, and a lot of people just aren't willing to. You have to give up a piece of yourself. By doing that, you get a greater sense of who you are. When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.

  Simon Van Booy

  Giving Up, Mean, Sacrifice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life.

  Simon Van Booy

  People, Want, Never Forget

  Simon Van Booy (2010). “The Secret Lives of People in Love: Stories”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Coincidences mean you're on the right path.

  Simon Van Booy

  Mean, Destiny, Coincidence In Life

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love: Love Begins in Winter”, p.51, Oneworld Publications

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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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  Reading, Way, Rooms

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• The present grows within the boundaries of the past.

  Simon Van Booy

  Past, Boundaries, Grows

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.53, Oneworld Publications

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• Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

  Simon Van Booy

  Writing, Royal, Irony

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• They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands

  Simon Van Booy

  Sleep, Hands, Years

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.37, Oneworld Publications

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• 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.

  Simon Van Booy

  Imperfection, Shadow, Trying

  Simon Van Booy (2014). “Everything Beautiful Began After”, p.11, Oneworld Publications

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• Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

  Simon Van Booy

  Sophisticated, Accepting, Form

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