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Quotes from The Professor in The Lesson — Eugène Ionesco

1909–1994 France

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That's not it. That's not it at all. You always have a tendency to add. But one must be able to subtract too. It's not enough to integrate, you must also disintegrate. That's the way life is. That's philosophy. That's science. That's progress, civilization.

The Professor in The Lesson (1951)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eugène Ionesco (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.