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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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I am told, in a dream you can only get the answer to all your questions through a dream. So in my dream, I fall asleep, and I dream, in my dream, that I'm having that absolute, revealing dream.
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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
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The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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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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