Satire · Skopia

Quotes

55

Novel · Satire

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

Candide · 1759

★ 7.6

Novel · Satire

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

Candide · 1759

★ 7.4

Novel · Satire

I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?

Candide · 1759

★ 7.0

Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Absalom and Achitophel · 1681

★ 6.9

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Books

42

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes

1605★ 9.7

Pride and Prejudice

1813★ 9.5

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1884★ 9.3

Animal Farm

1945★ 8.9

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

1967★ 8.7

Catch-22

1961★ 8.7

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Movies

20

Dr. Strangelove

Stanley Kubrick

1964★ 9.6

Fight Club

1999★ 8.6

WALL-E

2008★ 8.5

Network

1976★ 8.2

Monty Python's Life of Brian

1979★ 7.7

The Truman Show

1998★ 7.6

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