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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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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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We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously
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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
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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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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
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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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There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
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I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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We have not the time to take our time.
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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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We haven't the time to take out time.
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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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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
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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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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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