Angela Zhang

“Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”
― Voltaire, Candide

“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism

“If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?”
― Voltaire, Candide

“College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.”
― John Cage, M: Writings '67–'72