Storytelling Quotes by Eugène Ionesco

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There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to…

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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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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

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Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

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I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.

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“All doctors are quacks. And all patients too. Only the Royal Navy is honest in England.”

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That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.

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“I read a page of Plato's great work. I can no longer understand anything, because behind the words on the page, which have their own heavenly brightness, to be sure, there shines an even brighter, an enormous, dazzling -why- that blots out everything, cancels out, destroys all meaning. All individual intelligence. When one has understood, one stops, satisfied with what…

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