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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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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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I am told, in a dream you can only get the answer to all your questions through a dream. So in my dream, I fall asleep, and I dream, in my dream, that I'm having that absolute, revealing dream.
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The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
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There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously
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We haven't the time to take out time.
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You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
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I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
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It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.
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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.
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Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
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Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
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I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.
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Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
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