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Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.
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I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
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A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
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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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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.
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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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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
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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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I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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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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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
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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 personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.
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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
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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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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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We have not the time to take our time.
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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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