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The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
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Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
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Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
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You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
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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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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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Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.
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I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand 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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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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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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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.
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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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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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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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