Eugene Ionesco Quotes
For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; asthough there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart.
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I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.
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I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.
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For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.
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In the theater, actors are the essential element of the work. In a film, it's a real collaboration - not that theater isn't, because it is - but it's a collaboration to such an extent that you can give a performance in film that sometimes you look at and you go, "Well, that's not the performance I was trying to give at all."
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Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you believe those things? Prove to me that you’re better than the rabbits we ate last night.
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If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.
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My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.
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Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.
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You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose
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If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.
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You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish.
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Life divides into amazing enjoyable times and appalling experiences that will make future amazing anecdotes.
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Some people are just born stars – you either have it or you haven’t, and I was definitely born one.
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Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.
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He buries gold who hides the truth.
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
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Efficiency, Peter said, is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things.
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Humankind has no option but to protect and live in harmony with its natural environment. However, it would be regrettable if in putting an end to revolutionary extremism, we should then come to environmental extremism. We should not forget that all extremes are the same.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine.
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Love knows no time, or distance, and it certainly knows no reason.
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Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react. There are some things we can't control and some things that do happen to us that we can't take back, but how we deal with it afterwards is our future... I think anybody can do anything they want if they stay positive and determined.
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For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; asthough there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart.
