It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind. …

Eugene Ionesco
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It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind. ✨ Encyclopedia of World Biography. Book by Suzanne Michele Bourgoin et al., p. 132, 1998.
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