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I've wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but I still love life. That ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most pernicious inclinations. What could be more stupid than to persist in carrying a burden that we constantly want to cast off, to hold our existence in horror, yet cling to it nonetheless, to fondle the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten our hearts?

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Quote #2315 from Candide by Voltaire

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

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Wednesday, November 28, 1770
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Frederick II of Prussia
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Quote #1960 from letter to Frederick II of Prussia (November 28, 1770) by Voltaire as quoted in Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection From His Correspondence

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

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Quote #1961 from Notebooks by Voltaire

'[I]s there not pleasure in criticizing, in finding faults where other men think they see beauty?'

'That is to say,' said Martin, 'that there is pleasure in not being pleased.'

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Quote #1332 from Candide by Voltaire

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

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Quote #981 from Sixième discours: sur la nature de l'homme by Voltaire