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Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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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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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
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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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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
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We haven't the time to take out time.
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