More Quotes by Louis Aragon
Language was not given to man: he seized it.
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.
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
For each man there awaits a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.
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.
Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. Louis Aragon
Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.
It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.
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.