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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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A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
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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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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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Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
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I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
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Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
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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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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
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We haven't the time to take out time.
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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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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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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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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 more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
Eugene Ionesco
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
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