Quote by Eugene Ionesco
There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to reali

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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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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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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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. – Eugene Ionesco

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The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels. – Mikhail Strabo

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. – Roland Barthes

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in mens minds without their being aware of the fact. – Claude Levi-Strauss

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. – Italo Calvino

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