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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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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
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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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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
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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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Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
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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 more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
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The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is worth finding this elsewhere beyond the walls...but where is it?
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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
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Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
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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.
Eugene Ionesco
A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
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You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
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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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There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
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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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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
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