Eugène Ionesco
“The theater is a school for tears and for laughter.”
“If you want to understand men, study their excuses.”
“A civilised man is one who knows how to doubt.”
“He who has killed his conscience is a monster.”
“It is not the place that makes the person, but the person that makes the place.”
“We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read, when it is always the book next to it.”
“No society has been able to abolish human sadness.”
“Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.”
“Only the ephemeral is of lasting worth.”
“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”
“A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.”
“It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.”