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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.
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Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.
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The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
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You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
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It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.
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I am, it seems, an avant-garde dramatist. It would even seem obvious since I am present here at discussions on the avant-garde theatre. It is all entirely official. But what does the term avant-garde mean?
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I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
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The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is worth finding this elsewhere beyond the walls...but where is it?
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We haven't the time to take out time.
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A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
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I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.
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Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
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