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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 have not the time to take our time.
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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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Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
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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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Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
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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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We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously
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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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The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.
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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.
Eugene Ionesco
I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Eugene Ionesco
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
Eugene Ionesco
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.
Eugene Ionesco
We haven't the time to take out time.
Eugene Ionesco
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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