Simon Van Booy Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Simon Van Booy

  Thinking, People, Choices

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• 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.

  Simon Van Booy

  Lonely, Sea, Should

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think you can love someone and be infatuated with them, too. But infatuation is immediate, while the sort of love in the West is something you build with someone. It's a trust.

  Simon Van Booy

  Thinking, Infatuation, Infatuated

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• 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.

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  Mean, Successful, Records

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the
  universe, except that everyone else is still here.

  Simon Van Booy

  Loneliness, Alive, Persons

  Simon Van Booy (2014). “Everything Beautiful Began After”, p.58, 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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