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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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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.
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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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Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.
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Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
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There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... Drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about... Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion.
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I am told, in a dream you can only get the answer to all your questions through a dream. So in my dream, I fall asleep, and I dream, in my dream, that I'm having that absolute, revealing dream.
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The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
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Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
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Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.
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Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
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We have not the time to take our time.
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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
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The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.
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We haven't the time to take out time.
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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
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