I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a 'will to renewal'. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but…

Quote by Eugene Ionesco

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

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

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind

You've always made the mistake of being yourself

You've always made the mistake of being yourself

Marx was wrong; jealousy and pride, emotional forces, are just as responsible as hunger and...

Marx was wrong; jealousy and pride, emotional forces, are just as responsible as hunger and...

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

A civil servant doesn't make jokes

A civil servant doesn't make jokes

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital...

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital...

The unpleasant thing about society today is nowadays is that there is a confusion between...

The unpleasant thing about society today is nowadays is that there is a confusion between...

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is...

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is...

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open,...

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open,...

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people...

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people...

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not...

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not...

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society, except that which makes the...

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society, except that which makes the...

It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by...

It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by...

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying...

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying...

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror...

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror...

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a...

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a...

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change...

I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change...

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian...

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian...