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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.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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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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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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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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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
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I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
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Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of déjà vu, when you are used to existence, you become an adult.
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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
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Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
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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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You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
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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 isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.
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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
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We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.
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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
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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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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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