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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.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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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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There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
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I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.
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Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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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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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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There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
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We haven't the time to take out time.
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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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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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Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
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Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.
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A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
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