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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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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, 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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Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
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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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It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.
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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
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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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Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
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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 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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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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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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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
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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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