Eugene Ionesco Quotes
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
Quotes to Explore
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Second records aren't usually very good. Even Bob Dylan's was a bit disappointing.
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When I cruise around, I can't help but study people's faces and emotions and wonder why they're feeling the way they are.
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Harmless and innocent until they're taught to be violent and militant.
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So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
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We're going to need team efforts and we need each other down the stretch.
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Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.
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There are so many things I could say about you but none of them can describe you fully. You are the beauty I was waiting for. The love of my life of whom I dreamed day and night.
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It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and so on.
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No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.
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I love the feeling of being on a team, rehearsing together, sharing a dressing room - I love that so much.
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I fight for perfection.
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For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.
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The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children.
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All the world's a stage.
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The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
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The reason we can't attain the highest level of knowledge while incarnate is that we can't then wholly escape the influence of the body (and so of perception and of certain desires that take us away from thinking properly); and that prevents us from understanding fully what forms are, which one must do in order to have the highest level of knowledge.
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Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
