The purpose of the Collège was the demolition of culture, even of surrealism, which they considered too organized. But make no mistake, these people … - Eugène Ionesco

Another syllogism. All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

Atunci, stimată doamnă, cred că nu mai încape nici o îndoială, ne-am mai văzut, iar dumneavoastră sunteţi chiar soţia mea.

I believe that what separates us all from one another is simply society itself, or, if you like, politics. This is what raises barriers between men, this is what creates misunderstanding. If I may be allowed to express myself paradoxically, I should say that the truest society, the authentic human community, is extra-social — a wider, deeper society, that which is revealed by our common anxieties, our desires, our secret nostalgias. The whole history of the world has been governed by nostalgias and anxieties, which political action does no more than reflect and interpret, very imperfectly. No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.