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We haven't the time to take out time.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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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.
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People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.
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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
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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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All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... Drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about... Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion.
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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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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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I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
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The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
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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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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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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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