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There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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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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Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of déjà vu, when you are used to existence, you become an adult.
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Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
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The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
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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 is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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