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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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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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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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The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
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Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
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Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
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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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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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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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I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
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There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
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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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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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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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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
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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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We haven't the time to take out time.
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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
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We have not the time to take our time.
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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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