Quote by Eugene Ionesco
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political sy

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. – Eugene Ionesco

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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. – Eugene Ionesco

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There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is. – Eugene Ionesco

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For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night. – Sophocles

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. – Thomas Browne, An Essay on Death

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Man dies of cold, not of darkness. – Miguel de Unamuno

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An unused life is an early death. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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