Simon Van Booy
Books by Simon Van Booy
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Sipsworth
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The Presence of Absence
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Everything Beautiful Began After
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Quotes by Simon Van Booy
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Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.
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When a person is loved, they are granted the strength of all seas.
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We cross from memory into imagination with only a vague awareness of change.
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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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You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.
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Your grief is something to be admired – the pain of severance. A scar where something used to be.
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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.
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Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he had always wanted to be.
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I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.
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[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.
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Every moment is the paradox of now or never.
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...I like stories very much,— the priest said. —They help me understand myself better.
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Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet.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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Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.
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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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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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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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Every moment is the paradox of now or never.
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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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You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.
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