Eugene Ionesco Quotes
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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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Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
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The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate…
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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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You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
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When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great "why" is like…
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As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most…
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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…
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It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.
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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs…
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Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.
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The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
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Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?
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Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
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Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed...
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I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal.…
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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…
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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…
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Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.
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I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that…
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