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More Quotes by Louis Aragon
Language was not given to man: he seized it.
It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
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.
Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.
Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.
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.
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.
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.
