Eugene Ionesco Quotes
It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.
Quotes to Explore
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
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I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
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If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
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I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.
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This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it.
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I'm not a poster boy for Conservation International. I'm a working member of the board.
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I'm not sure of what the potential power of the Web is, but it is something that is here to stay, so it needs to be dealt with...It's kinda cool, though, for the fans ... because it makes what is basically a huge worldwide venue into an intimate one-on-one. I don't know of many concert halls that can do that.
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All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time tomorrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.
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It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.
