Simon Van Booy - Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories (2009)

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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.

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

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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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The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

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

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It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.

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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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Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned out, men and women chose whom they would love based on worldly needs, and then reenacted the rituals and feelings of that first pure experience - nursed the flames that once burned of their own accord

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Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.

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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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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.

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