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Tobias Smollett

  • b6221027333has quoted5 months ago
    I have been a hundred times upon the point of killing myself, but still I was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is, perhaps, one of the dangerous principles implanted in our nature. For what can be more absurd than to persist in carrying a burden of which we wish to be eased? to detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? In a word, to caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?
  • b6221027333has quoted5 months ago
    "Optimism," said Cacambo, "what is that?"

    "Alas!" replied Candide, "it is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst."
  • b6221027333has quoted5 months ago
    Ignorant readers are apt to judge a writer by his reputation. For my part, I read only to please myself. I like nothing but what makes for my purpose.
  • b6221027333has quoted5 months ago
    It is demonstrable," said he, "that things cannot be otherwise than as they are; for as all things have been created for some end, they must necessarily be created for the best end.
  • b6221027333has quoted5 months ago
    but still there must certainly be a pleasure in criticising everything, and in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.
  • yasmine ben ahmedhas quotedlast year
    you are now the support, the defender, the hero of the Bulgarians; your fortune is made; you are in the high road to glory."
  • Simone Hopehas quoted5 months ago
    lost through the injuries of time.
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