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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.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
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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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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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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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A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
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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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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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Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
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