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It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.

Eugene Ionesco

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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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Stanwood
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