Eugène Ionesco Short Quotes

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J'espère : Jesus-Christ.

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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

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God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.

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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

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Take a perfect circle, caress it and you'll have a vicious circle.

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

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Yoghurt is very good for the stomach, the lumber regions and apotheosis.

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

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Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clichés.

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

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People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?

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It isn't what people think that's important, but the reason they think what they think.

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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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I didn't mean you were stupid. It's just that you're not logical, which isn't the same thing at all.

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There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

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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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Boredom! I've got used to that. You get used to it, or rather, you don't get used to it, but you get used to not getting used to it.

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My work has been essentially a dialogue with death, asking him, Why? Why? So only death can silence me. Only death can close my lips.

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We exist on several different planes, and when we said nothing had any reason we were referring to the psychological and social plane.

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None of us would have written as we do without surrealism and dadaism. By liberating the language, those movements paved the way for us.

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I have no ideas before I write a play. I have them when I have finished it... I believe that aritistic creation is spontaneous. It is for me.

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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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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.

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All history is nothing but a succession of 'crises' – of rupture, repudiation and resistance... When there is no 'crisis', there is stagnation, petrification and death.

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Logician: A cat has four paws.
Old Gentleman: My dog had four paws.
Logician: Then it's a cat.
Old Gentleman: So my dog is a cat?
Logician: And the contrary is also true.

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