More Quotes by Louis Aragon
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
Language was not given to man: he seized it.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
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.
Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. Louis Aragon
It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.
