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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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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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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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I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
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We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously
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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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When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.
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People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.
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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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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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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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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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We have not the time to take our time.
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I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.
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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
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Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
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Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
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To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying
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