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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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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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I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.
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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
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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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Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
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Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
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We have not the time to take our time.
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Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.
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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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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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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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Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
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