Eugene Ionesco Quotes

Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.

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• I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me.

  

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• Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.

  

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• All the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.

  

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• I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.

  

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• If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

  

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• He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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• Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Power
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• Many people ... prefer to describe themselves as progressives rather than liberals. To some extent that's a response to the decades-long propaganda campaign conducted by movement conservatives, which has been quite successful in making Americans disdain the word liberal but much less successful in reducing support for liberal policies.

  

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• I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.

  

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  • I Love
  • Consider
  • Mum

• Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Work
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• Although I would like to describe the perfect day, I can't. Because a perfect day is one where there is no plan.

  

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• I’m adrift. That’s the feeling I’ve had since setting out today—and, really, for much of this shitburger of a year—and I’ve finally found the word to describe that feeling.

  

  Craig Lancaster
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• Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from a constant rationale) depends on whether the terms which sociologists employ to describe events can be analyzed into quantifiable observables.

  

  Anatol Rapoport
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• This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace it, like those portolano-makers who saturated the coastlines with the names of harbours, the names of capes, the names of inlets, until in the end the land was only separated from the sea by a continuous ribbon of text. Is the aleph, that place in Borges from which the entire world is visible simultaneously, anything other than an alphabet?

  

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• And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread, and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world! The whole secret is here, the whole of history is here. Science itself would not stand for a minute without beauty

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • History
  • Science
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• When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening in the universe, just like a hacker takes over someone else's computer.

  

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  • Universe
  • Computer
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• This world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don’t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.

  

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• Whatsoever Venus bids Is a joy excelling, Never in an evil heart Did she make her dwelling.

  

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• Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Describe
  • Vicious
  • Stroke