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Category: Simon Van Booy

The present grows within the boundaries of the past.

life, past, present

He realized this early on, and realized too that what people think are their lives are merely its conditions. The truth is closer than thought and lies buried in what we already know.

life, lives, meaning, truth

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

comfort, desperation, loneliness, philosophical, solitude

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

loneliness, universe

Sometimes I wake up and lie still enough to hear a petal drop from the vase of flowers. Sometimes I lie awake and wish there was someone to hear my falling.

flowers, loneliness

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’renot the first to die.

He might be famous (local newspaper or television) for finding it, true—but if fame takes away the thing it celebrates, then Sebastien would prefer the inspired silence. We’re all famous in our own hearts anyway.

celebrity, fame, famous

In his heart, some tiny piece of what hadn’t happened would lodge.

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.

birth, death, lonely, ocean

I was afraid of the sea when I was a girl. Someone said it went on forever and that frightened me. I wondered why my parents had chosen to live at the beginning and the end of the world.

end-of-the-world, ocean, sea

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

beauty, british, celebrity, fame, irony, romance, simon-van-booy

We all have different lives, Martin believes – but in the end probably feel the same things, and regret the fear we thought might somehow sustain us.

fear, life, regret