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You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying
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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
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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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Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
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Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
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