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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 work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
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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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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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There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
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I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
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You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
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It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.
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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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Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
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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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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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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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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
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I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
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Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
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