Eugène Ionesco Quotes

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

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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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Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

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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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You can only predict things after they have happened.

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