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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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Dramatist
Graphic Artist
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Literary Critic
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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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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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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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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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Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
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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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I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
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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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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
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The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
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I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
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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 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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Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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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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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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A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
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The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
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