No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system…

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. ✨ A Reply to Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role. The Observer, June 29, 1958.
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