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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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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
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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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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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I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
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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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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
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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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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
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Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
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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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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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We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously
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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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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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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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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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