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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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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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Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
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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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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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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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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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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
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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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