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“ What's optimism? said Cacambo. Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell. ”

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I loved him as we always love for the first time, with idolatry and wild passion.

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She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

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We never live, we are always in the expectation of living.

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Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.

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