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Quotes by Eugene Ionesco


Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
– Eugene Ionesco
A man with a soul is not like every other man.
– Eugene Ionesco
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
– Eugene Ionesco
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
– Eugene Ionesco
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.
– Eugene Ionesco
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.
– Eugene Ionesco
I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
– Eugene Ionesco
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
– Eugene Ionesco
Mindful of his own dignity, he is mindful of others', because he wishes to safeguard what is in fact the essence of man's value, no one is replacable. It is in this way, in this solitude, that he finds friendship and a friendly society, rather than the flock or the herd.
– Eugene Ionesco
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.
– Eugene Ionesco
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.
– Eugene Ionesco
There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.
– Eugene Ionesco