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Giles is Currently Reading

Giles is currently reading

Without Fail (Jack Reacher, #6)

by Lee Child (Goodreads Author)

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Giles’s Quotes

“Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires
Sisyphean patience for its song,
Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short
and Art is long.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

tags: art, patience, time

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“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

tags: atheism, philosophy

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“Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Blade Itself

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“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
― Richard Dawkins

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“Through the Unknown, we'll find the New”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

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