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More Quotes by Louis Aragon
Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.
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.
The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
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.
Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your fork, stripped of Ophelia's useless ornaments, fire in your large nostrils, out to rake the muck of metaphors.
Most people have never known solitude. But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.
