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My plays have been performed before children, workers, and peasants, and they have well understood the meaning of my theatre. What is needed for people to watch my theatre is a freshness and openness of mind.

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: Been Before Children Freshness Meaning Meaning Of Mind Needed Openness Peasants People Performed Plays Theatre Understood Watch Well Workers

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

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: Answer Enlightens Question

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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

Topics: Anti-Semitism Back Born Came Example For Example France Hated Later Moved Near Parents Romania Shattered Society Thirteen World Year Year Later I Was Born

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I have the vanity to think that every play I have written is different from the previous ones. Yet, even though they are written in a different way, they all deal with the same themes, the same preoccupations. 'Exit the King' is also 'The Bald Soprano.'

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: Also Bald Deal Different Different Way Even Every Exit King Play Previous Same Soprano Themes Think Though Vanity Way Written

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Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society.

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: Allow Art Arts Cannot Constitute Culture Development Life Metaphysics Organizing Our Philosophy Politics Relationships Religion Science Sciences Separated Society

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The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics.

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: Above Act Artist Belong He Parties Party Political Political Parties Political Party Politics

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

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: Alas Bourgeois Kind Most Often

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

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: Every Like Man Other Soul

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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: Always Been Collective Suspicious Truths

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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

Topics: Appear Away Beauty Causes Death Eternity Manifestation Precious Sign Takes Trace Us Well

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Dramatist

Born: November 26th, 1912

Died: March 28th, 1994

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