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Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
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People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.
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I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
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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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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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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.
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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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