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Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
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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Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.
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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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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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Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of déjà vu, when you are used to existence, you become an adult.
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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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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
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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'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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I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
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You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
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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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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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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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It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.
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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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