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More Quotes by Louis Aragon
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Language was not given to man: he seized it.
Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. Louis Aragon
Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.
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.
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.
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.
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.
For each man there awaits a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.