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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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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
Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
Eugene Ionesco
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.
Eugene Ionesco
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?
Eugene Ionesco
Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
Eugene Ionesco
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.
Eugene Ionesco
It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.
Eugene Ionesco
People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.
Eugene Ionesco
Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
Eugene Ionesco
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
Eugene Ionesco
You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
Eugene Ionesco
To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
Eugene Ionesco
Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
Eugene Ionesco
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.
Eugene Ionesco
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.
Eugene Ionesco
Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
Eugene Ionesco
I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
Eugene Ionesco
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.
Eugene Ionesco
We haven't the time to take out time.
Eugene Ionesco
I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
Eugene Ionesco
