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We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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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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There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
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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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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
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The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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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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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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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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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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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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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
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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.
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I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
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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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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
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I am, it seems, an avant-garde dramatist. It would even seem obvious since I am present here at discussions on the avant-garde theatre. It is all entirely official. But what does the term avant-garde mean?
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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
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