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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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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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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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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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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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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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We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously
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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
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Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
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I am told, in a dream you can only get the answer to all your questions through a dream. So in my dream, I fall asleep, and I dream, in my dream, that I'm having that absolute, revealing dream.
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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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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
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We have not the time to take our time.
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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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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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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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You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
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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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