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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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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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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
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Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
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I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
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