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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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Graphic Artist
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Ionesco
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Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
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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.
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The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is worth finding this elsewhere beyond the walls...but where is it?
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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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It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.
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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.
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Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
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We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.
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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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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 long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
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When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.
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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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We haven't the time to take out time.
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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously
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