It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Wisdom
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Quotes by Eugene Ionesco
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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.
Courage
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
Success
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
Wisdom
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.
Life
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Hope
You can only predict things after they have happened.
Wisdom
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
Wisdom
We have not the time to take our time.
Wisdom
Living is abnormal.
Life
Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.
Wisdom
A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
Wisdom
I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
Truth
A man with a soul is not like every other man.
Wisdom
The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
Wisdom
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.
Life
Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
Wisdom
A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
Wisdom