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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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.
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I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
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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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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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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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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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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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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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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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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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