More Quotes by Louis Aragon
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.
It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.
Language was not given to man: he seized it.
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.
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.
Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.
Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.