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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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The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.
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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
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Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.
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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
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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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It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.
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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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To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying
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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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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 long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
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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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The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.
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The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
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Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
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