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Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden. -- Voltaire
You're a bitter man," said Candide. That's because I've lived," said Martin. -- Voltaire
I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains -- Daniel Libeskind
What a pessimist you are!" exclaimed Candide. "That is because I know what life is," said Martin. -- Voltaire
The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists? -- Jandy Nelson
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. -- Lionel Trilling
Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst. -- Voltaire
My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society. -- Andrew Weil
But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin. -- Voltaire
After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera. -- Lauren Worsham
Candide is one of those books I read when I was young and that I come back to regularly. -- Mark Ravenhill
It's a book that makes me laugh and think - it would be very hard to like someone who didn't enjoy Candide! -- Mark Ravenhill
Also, everyone thinks they know Candide - you hear people described as 'Panglossian'. So if Candide appears on a poster, it feels familiar. -- Mark Ravenhill
It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love. -- Voltaire
Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this optimal world rather than some other. -- Mark Ravenhill
All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers. -- Voltaire
Optimism and happiness are not the same thing, but they are becoming interchangeable, and it seemed to me that Voltaire's Candide gave me a way into something important happening in modern-day culture. -- Mark Ravenhill
I tend to look at the world more from Voltaire's perspective. Incidentally, if you haven't read Candide lately, it's a fabulous book. It's riotously, laugh-out-loud funny in a way that no Shakespeare comedy will ever be. -- George Meyer
Translating Candide into tweets has really deepened my appreciation of his writing - it wouldn't work so well with nineteenth-century authors. Every single sentence in Voltaire seems to advance the story, and yet stand alone as a sound-bite. -- Mark Ravenhill

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