Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth …

Eugene Ionesco
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Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie. ✨ Eugene Ionesco, The Art of Theater No. 6. Interview with Shusha Guppy, Paris Review, No. 93, www.theparisreview.org. Fall 1984.
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Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie. ✨ Eugene Ionesco, The Art of Theater No. 6. Interview with Shusha Guppy, Paris Review, No. 93, www.theparisreview.org. Fall 1984.

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