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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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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 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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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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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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We haven't the time to take out time.
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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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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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The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
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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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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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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
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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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All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
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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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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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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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