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We have not the time to take our time.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.
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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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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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I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.
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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
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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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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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