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More Quotes by Louis Aragon
Language was not given to man: he seized it.
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.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.
The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.
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.
Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. Louis Aragon
Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.
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.
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.