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Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?

Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?

Eugene Ionesco
Death, Forever, Born
Eugene Ionesco, Charles Marowitz (2015). “Exit the King, The Killer, Macbett”, p.35, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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
Depression, Death, Pain
"A Reply to Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role". The Observer, June 29, 1958.

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

Eugene Ionesco
Death, Numbers, People
Eugene Ionesco (2015). “Rhinoceros and Other Plays: Includes: The Leader; The Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All Kinds to Make a World”, p.16, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Eugene Ionesco
Death, Heart, Ties

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
Beauty, Death, Causes

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