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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
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I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.
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The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
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People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.
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