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“How many plays have been written in France?' Candide asked the abbe.
'Five or six thousand.'
'That's a lot,' said Candide. 'How many of them are good?'
'Fifteen or sixteen,' replied the abbe.
'That's a lot,' said Martin.”
― Candide
'Five or six thousand.'
'That's a lot,' said Candide. 'How many of them are good?'
'Fifteen or sixteen,' replied the abbe.
'That's a lot,' said Martin.”
― Candide
“Maybe they understood, in fact, that beauty and meaning had nothing to do with one another.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“It is noble to write as one thinks; this is the privilege of humanity.”
― Candide
― Candide
“I left school and took the train up to see him the very next day, not because I thought it would mean so much to him to have me there, but to prove to my mother that I was a better person than she was: I was willing to be inconvenienced by someone else's suffering.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“Mind over matter, people say. But what is matter, anyway? When you look at it under a microscope, it's just tiny bits of stuff. Atomic particles. Sub-atomic particles. Look deeper and deeper and eventually you'll find nothing. We're mostly empty space. We're mostly nothing. Tra-la-la. And we're all the same nothingness. You and me, just filling the space with nothingness. We could walk through walls if we put our minds to it, people say. What they don't mention is that walking through a wall would most likely kill you. Don't forget that.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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