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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
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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'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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Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
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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 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 started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
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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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I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
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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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You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
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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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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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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 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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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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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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