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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
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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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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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There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
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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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I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
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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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We haven't the time to take out time.
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Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
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The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
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You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
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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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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'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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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
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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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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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Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
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