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- proper noun A novel by Voltaire (in which the protagonist shares his moniker with the title.)
- proper noun The Operetta of the same name, by Leonard Bernstein.
- proper noun A
naïve and innocent person.
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Examples
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James Morrow takes part in Candide 2.0, a "a complete online edition of the [Voltaire's] book in an innovative social format that enables readers to post digital marginalia alongside the text."
February 2010 2010
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James Morrow takes part in Candide 2.0, a "a complete online edition of the [Voltaire's] book in an innovative social format that enables readers to post digital marginalia alongside the text."
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Running around the track tonight, I found myself musing over the famous ironic expression by Voltaire in Candide: “pour encourager les autres.”
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But no one called Candide's name, and she adds, telling her story without obvious emotion, "My voice was almost gone because I had been screaming and crying for days."
unknown title 2009
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But no one called Candide's name, and she adds, telling her story without obvious emotion, "My voice was almost gone because I had been screaming and crying for days."
unknown title 2009
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If it were not for "Candide" -- so stiff and stilted was the fashionable spirit of that age -- there would be little in
Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917
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That’s true, but of course, Candide is out of copyright and Gibson is not. gerrycanavan
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More than that, though, Candide is one of those books I read as a teenager and could just never forget; it’s probably one of the ten novels most responsible for building my young leftist, atheist self …
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More than that, though, Candide is one of those books I read as a teenager and could just never forget; it’s probably one of the ten novels most responsible for building my young leftist, atheist self …
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Voltaire’s Candide is another example, a story that loosed a whole series of stinging little arrows at targets near the heart of state, church and contemporary philosophy.
What’s The Fuss About Episodic Fiction? « Tales from the Reading Room 2009
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