/lit/ - Literature

>>21429271
>this nigga don't tend to his garden
smћ my head

Voltaire.

The greatest mind of the millennium who got virtually everything right or reddit given flesh?

>>17036503
How does he look so smug???

Just look at his smug fucking face and tell me he isn't the most reddit fucking thinker to ever live

There’s ravenous bands of schizophrenics loose on this board. Choose recommended reading materials cautiously.

>jigglypuff
>jinx
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Voltaire, the most elegant shitposter

>>15006453
>We must cultivate our SWEET, SWEET, SWEET, SWEET BULBS IN MY LATEST GARDEN.

What did he mean by this?

How the fuck did he drink so much coffee?

I gotchoo nigga I gotchoo

>Milord, I've written only a page. There I prove that the soul is an
infused quintessence; that tails are given to animals to shoo flies;
that love works miracles, and that consequently Socrates is an enemy
of the state who must be exterminated.

>skipped an age of writing while everyone was still blatantly renaissance
Based.

I finally get what you guys meant when you said "Voltaire is reddit"
>Voltaire in the 18th century: "AN EARTHQUAKE!? I CANT BELIEVE THIS JUST HAPPENED!? THE WORLD IS SO TERRIBLE I CANT BELIEVE IT!"
>Reddit in the 21st century: "WOW A VIRUS AND A FIRE AT THE SAME TIME!? THE WORLD IS TERRIBLE! THE WORLD IS FUCKING ENDING!!!!"
Also, any literature that argues against news?

>>14206892
This guy fucked

Was Voltaire actually profound, or just an entertaining polemicist like Christopher Hitchens?

"He was a savage [...] who had some imagination. He has written many happy lines; but his pieces can please only at London and in Canada. It is not a good sign for the taste of a nation when that which it admires meets with favor only at home."

>>14172336
I agree. We really do live in the "beeeeeeeeeest" possible world.

Voltaire. Dislike him. His bildungsroman Candide is a laughably childish attempt to rebuke Leibniz, his writings were mediocre at best and he was a virulent Germanophobe
>>13528819
Anonymous. Dislike him. A coward, he can only criticize, for being a critic is easy

What the fuck was his problem?

Why was he so based? I’m reading Candide and it’s fucking hilarious.

So anon, do you live in the best possible world?

>>11982395
Let's not forget of this pimp !
Btw I hope it's all girls here.