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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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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
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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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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
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Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
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I am, it seems, an avant-garde dramatist. It would even seem obvious since I am present here at discussions on the avant-garde theatre. It is all entirely official. But what does the term avant-garde mean?
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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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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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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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We have not the time to take our time.
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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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The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
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