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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.
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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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
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We haven't the time to take out time.
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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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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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I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
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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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I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand 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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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
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