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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
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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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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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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
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Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
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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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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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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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