Beckett shows death; his people are in dustbins or waiting for God. (Beckett will be cross with me for mentioning God, but never mind.) Similarly, in… - Eugène Ionesco

I remember one day there was a military parade. A lieutenant was marching in front of the palace guards. I can still see him carrying the flag. I was standing beside a peasant with a big fur hat who was watching the parade, absolutely wide-eyed. Suddenly the lieutenant broke rank, rushed toward us, and slapped the peasant, saying, “Take off your hat when you see the flag!” I was horrified. My thoughts were not yet organized or coherent at that age, but I had feelings, a certain nascent humanism, and I found these things inadmissible. The worst thing of all, for an adolescent, was to be different from everyone else. Could I be right and the whole country wrong?

In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this need for an absolute that is called heaven, freedom, a miracle, a lost paradise to be regained, peace, the going beyond History... There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.... Humanity has always had a nostalgia for the freedom that is only beauty, that is only real; life, plenitude, light.

Liber e cel ce nici măcar nu știe că e liber,nici că există libertate,nici că există închisoare.Liber e nu cel ce se află dincolo de bin și de rău,ci în afara obsesiilor libertății și pușcăriei.A dori să nu ai dorințe înseamnă tot a avea o dorință.aceea anume de a nu avea dorințe.Liber,nici măcar liber,nici măcare ne-liber,liber cel ce trăiește oricum,cel ce nici nu acceptă nici nu refuză să trăiască,cel care pentru a trăi și a muri e totuna.