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You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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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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A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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We have not the time to take our time.
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Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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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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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
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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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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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We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously
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The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.
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Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
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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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I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
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We haven't the time to take out time.
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