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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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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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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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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
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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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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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You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
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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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I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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