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Eugene Ionesco was a renowned French playwright known for his absurdist plays. His works often explore the absurdity and meaninglessness of human existence, as well as the alienation of society and culture. Ionesco's dramatic style is unique, with concise and poetic language, which has had a profound impact on modern drama.

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Famous Eugene Ionesco Quotes

“Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.”

Book:Rhinoceros and Other Plays: Includes: The Leader; The Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All Kinds to Make a World

Source: Rhinoceros and Other Plays: Includes: The Leader; The Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All Kinds to Make a World

“An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system.”

Men Government Form Cities Enemy Expression Oppression Opponents Destroying Rebel Bent Avant Garde Systems Of Government

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“Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.”

Men Love Doe Dream Reality Fall Imagination Perspective Truth Is Accounts Fundamentals Obsession Realism Our Dreams Shrinks Astonishment Love Death

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“The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.”

Men Art Activity Essentials Useless

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“I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that I mean everything we desire, is true (the myth of Icarus came before aviation, and if Ader or Bleriot started flying it is because all men have dreamed of flight). There is nothing truer than myth... Reality does not have to be: it is simply what is.”

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“A man with a soul is not like every other man.”

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“Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.”

Men Behinds Communication Symptoms Cliche Banality

Author:Eugene Ionesco

“We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.”

Men Writing Lost Memories Importance Extraordinary Forgotten Memoir

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About the Author

Born: November 26, 1909
Died: March 28, 1994
Known for: Playwright
Quotes: 96

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Rhinoceros and Other Plays: Includes: The Leader; The Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All Kinds to Make a WorldRelated source material

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