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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.

— Eugène Ionesco

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Source: "A Reply to Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role" in The Observer (29 June 1958)
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