La pénicilline et la lutte contre l'alcoolisme sont bien plus efficaces que les changements de gouvernements. - Eugène Ionesco

As I said, I started with poetry, and I also wrote criticism and dialogue. But I realized that I was most successful at dialogue. Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay you are not supposed to contradict yourself. But in the theater, by inventing various characters, you can. My characters are contradictory not only in their language, but in their behavior as well.

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Ruptura între ființă și gandire.Gandirea,golită de ființă,se usucă,se vestejește,nu mai e gandire.Într-adevăr,gandirea e expresia ființei,coincide cu ființa.Poți vorbi fără să gandești.Pentru asta avem la dispoziție clișeele,adică automatismele.Gandirea adevărată nu poate fi decat vie.

The Pataphysique is not dead. It lives on in the minds of certain men, even if they are not aware of it. It has gone into “occultation,” as we say, and will come back again one day.