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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.
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've always been suspicious of collective truths.
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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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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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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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We haven't the time to take out time.
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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
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The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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