Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

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Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

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For each man there awaits a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.

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The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.

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Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. Louis Aragon

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Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.

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I have no friends, there are only people I love.

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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.

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Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

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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.

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