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• The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.

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• The love of a man is like a drop of color into something clear.

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• Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you.

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• Without memory, he thought, man would be invincible.

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• The present grows within the boundaries of the past.

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• The very best and the very worst of life will come from ability to love strangers.

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• Truth is just a lie that everyone believes.

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• Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

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• Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.

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• Love requires imagination more than experience.

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

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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 to carry on.

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• The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.

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• Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.

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• The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

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• Coincidences mean you’re on the right path.

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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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• 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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Simon Van Booy (42)

Birth:	1975
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Writer

About

Simon Van Booy is a British writer who lives in the United States. He grew up in rural Wales, but has lived in Kentucky, Paris, Athens, New York City and the Hamptons. Love Begins in Winter won the 2009 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.

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