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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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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.
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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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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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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
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You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
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We haven't the time to take out time.
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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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Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.
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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
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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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A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
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We have not the time to take our time.
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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
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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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