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Type: Poet Quotes Category: French Poet Quotes Date of Birth: October 3, 1897 Date of Death: December 24, 1982 Nationality: French Find on Amazon: Louis Aragon Related Authors: Charles Baudelaire Jean de La Fontaine Tahar Ben Jelloun Paul Valery Alfred de Vigny Raymond Queneau Theophile Gautier Andre Breton |
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
Louis Aragon 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. Louis Aragon 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. Louis Aragon 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. Louis Aragon Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd. Louis Aragon 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. Louis Aragon Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. Louis Aragon The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. Louis Aragon There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Louis Aragon We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. Louis Aragon |
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