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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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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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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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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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We haven't the time to take out time.
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The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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