More Quotes by Louis Aragon
Most people have never known solitude. But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.
I have no friends, there are only people I love.
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.
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.
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
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.
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. Louis Aragon
