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It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
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Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
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