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

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

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Language was not given to man: he seized it.

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Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

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

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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.

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It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.

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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.

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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

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