Eugene Ionesco Quotes - Page 2

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• Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.

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  Pessimistic, Obligation

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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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  People, Evil, Trying

  "Eugene Ionesco, The Art of Theater No. 6". Interview with Shusha Guppy, Paris Review, No. 93, www.theparisreview.org. Fall 1984.

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• The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.

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  Art, Men, Essentials

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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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  Philosophical, Understanding, Given

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• Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

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  Illusions Of Grandeur, People, Delusions Of Grandeur

  Eugene Ionesco, Charles Marowitz (2015). “Exit the King, The Killer, Macbett”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.

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  Writing, People, Answers

  "The Writer's Quotation Book: A Literary Companion". Book by James Charlton, p. 44, 1980.

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• The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.

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  Childhood, Adults, World

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• Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.

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  Courses

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• Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.

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  Has Beens

  Eugene Ionesco, Charles Marowitz (2015). “Exit the King, The Killer, Macbett”, p.53, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind.

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  Ridiculous, Certain, Mankind

  "Encyclopedia of World Biography". Book by Suzanne Michele Bourgoin et al., p. 132, 1998.

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

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  Suicide, Murder, These Days

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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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  Truth, Thinking, Expression

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• We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.

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  Memories, Writing, Men

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• We have not the time to take our time.

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  Our Time

  Eugene Ionesco, Charles Marowitz (2015). “Exit the King, The Killer, Macbett”, p.13, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.

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  Trying

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• Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.

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  Dream, Reality, Profound

  "Eugene Ionesco, The Art of Theater No. 6". Interview with Shusha Guppy, Paris Review, No. 93, www.theparisreview.org. Fall 1984.

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• Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.

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  Beautiful, Long, Logic

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• To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.

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  World, Ridiculous, Painful

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• A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

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  Art, Travel, Adventure

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• To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow.

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  Real, Blow, Everyday

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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 for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

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  Death, Heart, Ties

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• We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously

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  Taken, Made, Immortal

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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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  Dream, Memories, Moving

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• It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.

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  Philosophical, Conscious, Asks

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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. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises - of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive.

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  Art, Believe, Rupture

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