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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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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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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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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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Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
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Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
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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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The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
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I am, it seems, an avant-garde dramatist. It would even seem obvious since I am present here at discussions on the avant-garde theatre. It is all entirely official. But what does the term avant-garde mean?
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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
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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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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
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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.
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
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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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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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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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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
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