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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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Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
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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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I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
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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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The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
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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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All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... Drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about... Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion.
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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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We have not the time to take our time.
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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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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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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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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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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
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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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To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
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We haven't the time to take out time.
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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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