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Candide Quote by Mark Ravenhill

“Also, everyone thinks they know Candide - you hear people…” quote by Mark Ravenhill — Download Open image

“Also, everyone thinks they know Candide - you hear people described as 'Panglossian'. So if Candide appears on a poster, it feels familiar.”

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Theatre within theatre, when characters sees themselves on stage, always raises philosophical questions of choice and free will.

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Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this optimal world…

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“The shrieks were coming from two quite naked girls, who were pursued by a pair of apes snapping at their bottoms. [...] So he…

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All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties…

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“Everything is not as good as in El-Dorado; but everything is not so bad.”

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Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

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Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are.

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You're a bitter man," said Candide. That's because I've lived," said Martin.

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“It is man´s faith to live either on agonies of fear and turmoil or in the prostration of boredom.”

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Hyper-selectionism has been with us for a long time in various guises; for it represents the late nineteenth century's scientific version of the myth…

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I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run…

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What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

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