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More Quotes by Louis Aragon
Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.
Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.
Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.
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.
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
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.
Language was not given to man: he seized it.
For each man there awaits a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
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.
