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Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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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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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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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
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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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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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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
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The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
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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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We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously
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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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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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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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