Book

Candide

Voltaire · 1759

Canon spine row 74. Voltaire — Candide. Era: 1759. Lang: French.

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What this book knows

Optimism is a lie we tell ourselves; suffering is universal, and the only honest answer is tending your own garden.

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Work: Primary
Learning: Present
Religion: Primary

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trauma-and-survival

When the mill snatches hold of a finger, they cut off the hand; when we attempt to run away, they cut off the leg. This is the price at which you eat sugar in Europe.
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I was seized with horror at the burning of those two Jews; but what was my surprise when I saw in a san-benito a figure which resembled Pangloss.
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I have been so horribly unhappy that my heart is almost closed to hope.
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faith-and-doubt

I cannot help thinking that God has abandoned it to some malignant being. Everywhere the weak execrate the powerful, before whom they cringe.
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Pangloss had once asserted that everything went wonderfully well; he asserted it still, though he no longer believed it.
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work-as-meaning

I content myself with sending there for sale the fruits of the garden which I cultivate.
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