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Ever since I was fifteen, that is to say from that moment when I lost all that was left me of my childhood, from the moment when I ceased to be aware… - Eugène Ionesco
" "Ever since I was fifteen, that is to say from that moment when I lost all that was left me of my childhood, from the moment when I ceased to be aware of the present and knew only the past hurrying into the future, that is to say into the abyss, ever since I became fully conscious of time I have felt old and I have wanted to live. I have run after life as though to catch time, and I have tried to live. I have run after life so much that it has always escaped me, I have run, I have never been late and never too early, and yet I have never caught up with it: it is as though I have run alongside of it.
What is life, I may be asked. For me, life is not Time; it is not this state of existence, for ever escaping us, slipping between our fingers and vanishing like a ghost as soon as you try to grasp it. For me it is, it must be, the present, presentness, plenitude. I have run after life so much that I have lost it.
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About Eugène Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco (26 November 1909 – 29 March 1994), born Eugen Ionescu, was a Romanian playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost playwrights of Theatre of the Absurd.
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JEAN - Sim, eu tenho força: Tenho força por várias razões. Em primeiro lugar, eu
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força moral. E mais: também tenho força, porque não sou alcoólatra, meu caro. Eu não
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BÉRENGER - (a Jean) Quanto a mim, sinto pouca força para agüentar a vida. Talvez
também não tenha muito interesse nisso.
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JEAN - (a Bérenger) Você se contradiz. É a solidão que pesa ou é a multidão? Você se
toma por um pensador e não tem nenhuma lógica.
BÉRENGER - (a Jean) Viver é uma coisa anormal.
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