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When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.
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 nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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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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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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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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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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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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The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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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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The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
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We have not the time to take our time.
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