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More Quotes by Louis Aragon
Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.
Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew.
Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies. Unknown, ever-changing gods take shape there.
Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity.
The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.
It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.
