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A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

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

Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay, you are not supposed to contradict yourself. But in the theater, by inventing various characters, you can. My characters are contradictory not only in their language but in their behavior as well.

From Eugene Ionesco

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

From Eugene Ionesco

A man with a soul is not like every other man.

From Eugene Ionesco

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

From 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.

From Eugene Ionesco