Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

classic quote by Eugene Ionesco
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Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

quote by Eugene Ionesco
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Eugene Ionesco in Decouvertes (1969)
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To introduce people to a different world, to encounter the miracle of being, that is important.

quote by Eugene Ionesco
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Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.

quote by Eugene Ionesco
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The fact to be inhabit by an incomprehensible nostalgia, could be the sign that there is an "elsewhere".

Eugene Ionesco in Notes and Counter Notes (1962)
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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.

quote by Eugene Ionesco
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Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

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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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Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing.

classic quote by Eugene Ionesco
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