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Daniel is Currently Reading

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Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

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The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

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Daniel’s Quotes

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

tags: love

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“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: cynicism

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“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
― Anne Sexton

tags: living, soul

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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

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“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: christianity, fundamentalism, god, humor, idolatry, misattributed-to-anne-lamott, spirituality, truth

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