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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.
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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I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.
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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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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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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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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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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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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
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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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A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
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The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
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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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It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.
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Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
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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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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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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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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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