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Eugene Ionesco Quotes
«You can only predict things after they've happened»
Author: Eugene Ionesco
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predict
«Realism, whether it be socialist or not, 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.»
Author: Eugene Ionesco
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astonishment, estranged, estranges, estranging, falsified, falsifies, falsify, falsifying, fundamental, obsessions, perspective, presents, realism, reduced, shrinks, socialist, socialists, take into account, The Socialist
«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.»
«For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; as though there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart.»
Author: Eugene Ionesco
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actualities, actuality, appearances, construction, constructions, escaped, Everything or Nothing, foundations, tearing, Things Fall Apart, veil, vividly
«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.»
«The unpleasant thing about society today is nowadays is that there is a confusion between people and their function; or rather, people are tempted to identify with the function they perform. This is what's happening, particularly in totalitarian soc»
Author: Eugene Ionesco
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
happening, identify, nowadays, particularly, tempted, totalitarian, unpleasant
«Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.»
Author: Eugene Ionesco
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death instinct, death wish, longs, repress, ties, Ties That Bind, unfasten, unhindered
«Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.»
Author: Eugene Ionesco
| About:
Explanations
| Keywords:
astonishment, gateway, gateways, incomprehensible, separates, The Gateway
«I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a 'will to renewal'. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of 'crises', of rupture, re»
Author: Eugene Ionesco
| About:
Art,
Culture,
History
| Keywords:
crises, decade, history of art, last decade, prerogative, prerogatives, rupture, ruptured, succession