Eugene Ionesco Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Eugene Ionesco:

Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

Eugene Ionesco

I was born near Bucharest, but my parents came to France a year later. We moved back to Romania when I was thirteen, and my world was shattered. I hated Bucharest, its society, and its mores - its anti-Semitism for example.

Eugene Ionesco

A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

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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

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

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Living is abnormal.

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The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

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

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

Eugene Ionesco

You can only predict things after they have happened.

Eugene Ionesco

Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.

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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

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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.

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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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We have not the time to take our time.

Eugene Ionesco

When I was nine, the teacher asked us to write a piece about our village fete. He read mine in class. I was encouraged and continued. I even wanted to write my memoirs at the age of ten. At twelve I wrote poetry, mostly about friendship - 'Ode to Friendship.' Then my class wanted to make a film, and one little boy suggested that I write the script.

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