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Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
Eugene Ionesco
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Eugene Ionesco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 26
Died: 1994
Died: March 28
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Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
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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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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've always been suspicious of collective truths.
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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
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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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We have not the time to take our time.
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Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of déjà vu, when you are used to existence, you become an adult.
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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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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 am told, in a dream you can only get the answer to all your questions through a dream. So in my dream, I fall asleep, and I dream, in my dream, that I'm having that absolute, revealing dream.
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Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
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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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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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Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
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Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
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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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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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