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I have the vanity to think that every play I have written is different from the previous ones. Yet, even though they are written in a different way, they all deal with the same themes, the same preoccupations. 'Exit the King' is also 'The Bald Soprano.'
- Eugene Ionesco
#Bald
#Exit
#King
#Play
#Way
Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
- Eugene Ionesco
#Despair
#God
#Great
#Place
#Us
A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
- Eugene Ionesco
#Civil
#Jokes
#Make
#Servant
Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.
- Eugene Ionesco
#Been
#Everything
#Will
I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
- Eugene Ionesco
#Always
#Been
#Collective
#Suspicious
A man with a soul is not like every other man.
- Eugene Ionesco
#Every
#Like
#Man
#Other
#Soul
Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.
- Eugene Ionesco
#Alas
#Bourgeois
#Kind
#Most
#Often
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
- Eugene Ionesco
#Expression
#Needs
#Revolution
#Spiritual
Politics separate men by bringing them together only superficially. Art and culture unite us in a common anguish that is our only possible fraternity, that of our existential and metaphysical community.
- Eugene Ionesco
#Art
#Culture
#Men
#Politics
#Together
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
- Eugene Ionesco
#Ideology
#Life
#Live
#Prison
#Religion
Woe betide the man who refuses to conform.
- Eugene Ionesco
#Conform
#Man
#Refuses
#Who
#Woe
A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
- Eugene Ionesco
#Nose
#See
#Sniff
#Two
#Worth
Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
- Eugene Ionesco
#Beauty
#Death
#Eternity
#Precious
#Us
When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged and continued. I even wanted to write my memoirs at the age of ten. At twelve I wrote poetry, mostly about friendship - 'Ode to Friendship.' Then my class wanted to make a film, and one little boy suggested that I write the script.
- Eugene Ionesco
#Age
#Film
#Friendship
#Poetry
#Teacher
Living is abnormal.
- Eugene Ionesco
#Abnormal
#Living
The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
- Eugene Ionesco
#Critic
#Describe
#Prescribe
#Should
You can only predict things after they have happened.
- Eugene Ionesco
#After
#Happened
#Only
#Predict
#Things
We have not the time to take our time.
- Eugene Ionesco
#Our Time
#Our
#Take
#Time
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
- Eugene Ionesco
#Explanation
#Only
#Separates
#Us
#Which
I look out the chair while eating my pillow. I open the wall, I walk with my ears. I have ten eyes to walk with and two fingers to look with. I put my head on the floor to sit down, I put my bottom on the ceiling. After eating the music box, I spread jam on the rug for a great dessert.
- Eugene Ionesco
#Eyes
#Great
#Look
#Music
#Walk
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
- Eugene Ionesco
#Absurd
#Lost
#Man
#Roots
#Useless
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
- Eugene Ionesco
#Answer
#Enlightens
#Question
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
- Eugene Ionesco
#Above
#Adventure
#Art
#Mind
#Work
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.
- Eugene Ionesco
#Death
#Fear
#Pain
#Political
#Society
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
- Eugene Ionesco
#Anguish
#Bring
#Dreams
#Together
#Us
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