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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. By Eugene Ionesco
Why was I born, if it wasn't forever? By Eugene Ionesco
All men die in solitude; all values are degraded in a state of misery: that is what Shakespeare tells me By Eugene Ionesco
People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil. By Eugene Ionesco
God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself. By Eugene Ionesco
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. By Eugene Ionesco
Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused. By Eugene Ionesco
A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship. By Eugene Ionesco
Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious. By Eugene Ionesco
The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself. By Eugene Ionesco
What's chivalrous about saying you've seen a rhinoceros? By Eugene Ionesco
Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic. By Eugene Ionesco
To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying By Eugene Ionesco
People who don't read are brutes. By Eugene Ionesco
Solitude seems to oppress me. And so does the company of other people. By Eugene Ionesco
There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer. By Eugene Ionesco
FIRE CHIEF: Life is very simple, really. [To the Smiths:] Go on and kiss each other. By Eugene Ionesco
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches. By Eugene Ionesco
The fact that I despise religion doesn't mean I don't esteem it highly. By Eugene Ionesco
Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer. By Eugene Ionesco
I've always been suspicious of collective truths. By Eugene Ionesco
I just can't get used to life. By Eugene Ionesco
I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again. By Eugene Ionesco
That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide. By Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. By Eugene Ionesco
Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality. By Eugene Ionesco
We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously By Eugene Ionesco
Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been. By Eugene Ionesco
It's not that I hate people. I'm just indifferent to them - or rather, they disgust me; and they'd better keep out of my way, or I'll run them down. By Eugene Ionesco
Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair. By Eugene Ionesco
Rhinoceros The Leader The Future is in Eggs or It Takes all Sorts to Make a World By Eugene Ionesco
I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it. By Eugene Ionesco
I am not capitulating. By Eugene Ionesco
You can only predict things after they have happened. By Eugene Ionesco
Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out. By Eugene Ionesco
Truth has only two sides, but it's the third side that's best. By Eugene Ionesco
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs. By Eugene Ionesco
Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. By Eugene Ionesco
I started writing for the theatre because I hated it. By Eugene Ionesco
Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth. By Eugene Ionesco
The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity. By Eugene Ionesco
Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately. By Eugene Ionesco
It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think By Eugene Ionesco
Living is abnormal. By Eugene Ionesco
It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions. By Eugene Ionesco
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. By Eugene Ionesco
When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about. By Eugene Ionesco
I'm looking for a monophysite priest to marry our maid. By Eugene Ionesco
To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful. By Eugene Ionesco
If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art. By Eugene Ionesco
It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind, By Eugene Ionesco
Do rhinoceroses cough? By Eugene Ionesco
Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security. By Eugene Ionesco
A work of art really is above all an adventure of the mind. By Eugene Ionesco
Dreams are reality at its most profound. By Eugene Ionesco
Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings. By Eugene Ionesco
The critic should describe, and not prescribe. By Eugene Ionesco
We haven't the time to take out time. By Eugene Ionesco
A civil servant doesn't make jokes. By Eugene Ionesco
We have not the time to take our time. By Eugene Ionesco
People, they all have the word goodness on lips a bloody knife between their teeth. By Eugene Ionesco
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We haven't the time to take our time. By Eugene Ionesco
Only the ephemeral is of lasting value. By Eugene Ionesco
All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat. By Eugene Ionesco
I don't believe in seeing evil in everything. I leave that to the inquisitors. By Eugene Ionesco
I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old. By Eugene Ionesco
But you'll never become a rhinoceros, really you won't ... you haven't got the vocation! By Eugene Ionesco
A man with a soul is not like every other man. By Eugene Ionesco
Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality. By Eugene Ionesco
A nose that can see is worth two that sniff. By Eugene Ionesco
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. By Eugene Ionesco
You've always made the mistake of being yourself. By Eugene Ionesco
He would say ect. instead of ect., and thus instead of ect., instead of ect. and thus and so forth! By Eugene Ionesco
Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name?~Jack or The Submission By Eugene Ionesco
A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing. By Eugene Ionesco
