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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

Eugene Ionesco

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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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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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We have not the time to take our time.
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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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It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.
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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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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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Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
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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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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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I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
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Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
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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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I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
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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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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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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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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'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.
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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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