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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.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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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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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
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We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.
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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
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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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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
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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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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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Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
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The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is worth finding this elsewhere beyond the walls...but where is it?
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We have not the time to take our time.
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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
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We haven't the time to take out time.
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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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