French - Dramatist | November 26, 1909 - March 28, 1994
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
Eugene Ionesco
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A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
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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.
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All theatre is absurd.
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Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
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The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics.
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Art goes beyond politics. Even if there are writers who are involved in politics, eventually, in one or two centuries, it's not their politics which is going to count, but the fact of having given life to feelings, of having created characters and made a living work of art.
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Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.
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