Louis Aragon Quotes

#1. In our day there are no longer any ideas, or they are scarcer than hens' teeth.

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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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#4. As [John Heartfield] was playing with the fire of appearance, reality took fire around him ... The scraps of photographs that he formerly manoeuvred for the pleasure of stupification, under his fingers began to signify.

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#5. As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!

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#6. Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

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

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#8. The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.

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#9. Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.

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#10. For each man there awaits ... a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.

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#11. The rose is born evil ... but it is pink.

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#12. The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds.

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#13. 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.

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#14. Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.

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#15. That you are not already golden word in our streets Already memories Your love fades Already Whether you are no longer to have perished.

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#16. Language was not given to man: he seized it.

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#17. The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.

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

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#19. I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.

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#20. 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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#21. Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

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

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

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

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#25. O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

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#26. There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

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#27. 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 ...

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#28. And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great beasts await them, fat and docile.

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#29. Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

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