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• I just can't get used to life.

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  Life, Used

  Eugene Ionesco (2015). “Rhinoceros and Other Plays: Includes: The Leader; The Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All Kinds to Make a World”, p.10, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.

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  Dream, Fall, Waste

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• A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

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  Travel, Writing, Thinking

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• La luz de la memoria, o más bien la luz que la memoria presta a las cosas, es la luz más pálida de todas. No sé muy bien si estoy soñando o recordando, si he vivido mi vida o la he soñado. Al igual que los sueños, la memoria me hace profundamente consciente de la irrealidad, de la evanescencia del mundo, una imagen fugaz en el agua en movimiento.

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  Dream, Memories, Moving

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• When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great "why" is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out.

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  Philosophical, Light, Silence

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• Every work of art (unless it is a psuedo-intellectualist work, a work already comprised in some ideology that it merely illustrates, as with Brecht) is outside ideology, is not reducible to ideology. Ideology circumscribes without penetrating it. The absence of ideology in a work does not mean an absence of ideas; on the contrary it fertilizes them.

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  Arte, Significado, Ideas

  "Una respuesta a Kenneth Tynan: The Playwright's Role". The Observer, 29 de junio de 1958.

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• The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register.

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  Distance, Moving, Science

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• When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.

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  Humorous, Years, Able

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

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  Hombres, Alma

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• I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.

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  Writing, Theatre, Hated

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• I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.

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  Years, Sometimes, Forget

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• Como todas las revoluciones, la surrealista fue una reversión, una restitución, una expresión de necesidades espirituales vitales e indispensables.

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  Spiritual, Expression, Needs

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• I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises - of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive.

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  Art, Believe, Rupture

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• We haven't the time to take out time.

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  Time, Havens

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• Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of "déjà vu," when you are used to existence, you become an adult.

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  Inspirational, Children, Night

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

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  Circles, Vicious, Strokes

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• A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

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  Government, Bureaucracy, Servant

  Tuer sans Gages (The Killer) act 1 (1958)

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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.

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  Fall, Together, Foundation

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• As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most human beings forget what they have understood, recover another sort of childhood that can last all their lives. It is not a true childhood but a kind of forgetting. Desires and anxieties are there, preventing you from having access to the essential truth.

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  Philosophical, Believe, Childhood

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• No tengo más imágenes del mundo que las que expresan la evanescencia y la insensibilidad, la vanidad y la cólera, el vacío o el odio oculto e inútil. Todo no ha hecho más que confirmar lo que había visto y comprendido en mi infancia: fútiles y sórdidos arrebatos de cólera, gritos súbitamente cubiertos por el silencio, sombras tragadas para siempre por la noche.

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  Hate, Night, Vanity

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• I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least.

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  Song, Water, Theatre

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• Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

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  Despair, Trying, Way

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• The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue.

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  Inspiración, Niños

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• I am not capitulating.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Eugene Ionesco (2015). “Rhinoceros and Other Plays: Includes: The Leader; The Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All Kinds to Make a World”, p.64, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Una nariz que ve vale por dos que huelen.

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  Two, Smell, Noses

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