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More Quotes by Louis Aragon
For each man there awaits a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.
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.
Language was not given to man: he seized it.
The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.
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.
Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. Louis Aragon
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.
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.
Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.
Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.
