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“Pangloss taught metaphysico-theologico-cosmo-nigology. He could prove to wonderful effect that there was no effect without cause, and that, in this best of all possible worlds, His Lordship the Baron's castle was the finest of castles and Her Ladyship the best of all possible baronesses.”
We don’t talk enough about how hardcore the name Voltaire is (idc if it’s a pen name - it still rocks)
— Nov 16, 2025 06:02AM
We don’t talk enough about how hardcore the name Voltaire is (idc if it’s a pen name - it still rocks)
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Zachary Scott
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“‘Oh Pangloss!’ cried Candide. ‘This is one abomination you could not have anticipated, and I fear it has finally done for me: I am giving up on your Optimism after all'
- What is Optimism?' asked Cacambo. - 'Alas!' said Candide, 'it is the mania for insisting that all is well when all is by no means well.”
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- What is Optimism?' asked Cacambo. - 'Alas!' said Candide, 'it is the mania for insisting that all is well when all is by no means well.”
Zachary Scott
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“when a man cannot get what he wants in one world, he finds it in another. And isn't one of life's great pleasures to see new places and do new things?”
— Nov 18, 2025 07:09PM
Zachary Scott
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“I have wanted to kill myself, but I was still in love with life. This absurd weakness is perhaps one of our deadliest attachments: can anything be more foolish than to keep carrying a fardel and yet keep wanting to throw it to the ground? To hold one's existence in horror, and yet cling to it? In a word, to caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart?”
— Nov 16, 2025 04:50PM
