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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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The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult. – Eugene Ionesco

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Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. – Wilson Mizner

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At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. – George Carlin

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Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. – Mahatma Gandhi

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When Im lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me. – Steven Morrissey

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Sometimes, in a relationship, we fail to put two and two together because we want so much to keep one and one together. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and its total crap to pretend its not. – George Michael

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Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if youre up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly. – Cory Lidle

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What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters. – Alfred Russel Wallace

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