#voltaire

Optimism… it is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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I’ve wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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Almost everything is imitation… The most original minds borrowed from one another… It is with books as with the fire in

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I’ve wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

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Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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I’ve wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

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Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said.

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I’ve wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

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I’ve wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.

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It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

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Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

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We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly

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Voltaire Mikhail Bulgakov Elizabeth Gaskell Alexandre Cabanel / Fallen Angel Allen Ginsberg Gaston Leroux ...