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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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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
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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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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
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It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.
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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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People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.
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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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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 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 started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
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The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.
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