"Sometimes, language is the sound of longing" — Simon Van Booy
"Sometimes, language is the sound of longing"
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Simon Van Booy
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68 Quotes by Simon Van Booy
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Coincidences mean you're on the right path.
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Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach…
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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…
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The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.
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I don’t see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying.
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For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building…
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To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need…
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I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.
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Dreamers conquered the world long ago.
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Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.
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I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms…
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I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of…
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War is what happens when language fails.
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As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say,…
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing.
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
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