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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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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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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
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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 work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
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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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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 long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.
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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
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The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
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You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
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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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We have not the time to take our time.
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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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Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
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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.
Eugene Ionesco
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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