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Quotes of the Week - January 17, 2012:
"Our campaign is about more than replacing a President. It is about saving the soul of America." -- Republican Mitt Romney, US presidential hopeful, after winning New Hampshire primary.

"Remember to look up at the stars and not down to your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up." -- Professor Stephen Hawking on his 70th birthday.

"American children had never seen a moving bosom before." -- Actress Celia Imrie on the alarm caused by her low-cut dress in Nanny McPhee.

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A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
Eugene Ionesco
The Killer

All history is nothing but a succession of 'crises' - of rupture, repudiation and resistence….when there is no 'crisis', there is stagnation, petrification and death.
Eugene Ionesco

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.
Eugene Ionesco

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
Eugene Ionesco

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
Eugene Ionesco
Present Past - Past Present

Boredom! I've got so used to that. You get used to it, or rather, you don't get used to it, but you get used to not getting used to it.
Eugene Ionesco
Jean, in Journeys Among The Dead

If God exists, why write literature? And if he doesn't, why write literature?
Eugene Ionesco
Non

Life is an abnormal business.
Eugene Ionesco
Jean, in The Rhinoceros

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
Eugene Ionesco

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.
Eugene Ionesco
Fragments of a Journal

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Eugene Ionesco: Romanian-born French playwright. Born 1912. Died 1994.

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