Quotes by Louis Aragon - Page 1

The rose is born evil ... but it is pink.
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Born
Evil
Rose
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Language was not given to man: he seized it.
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Art
Men
Philosophy
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Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.
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I have no friends, there are only people I love.
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Friends
I Have No Friends
No Friends
People
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Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.
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Ocean
Genius
Should
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As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!
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Body
Ifs
Wanted
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Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.
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Inspirational
Imagination
Students
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There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
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Errors
Flower
Reason
Senses
Strange
Flowers
Error
Match
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It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.
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Blow
Pleasure
Sometimes
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In our day there are no longer any ideas, or they are scarcer than hens' teeth.
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Hens
Ideas
Teeth
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The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.
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Eye
Tomorrow
Use
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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
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Funny
Nature
Success
Work
Genius
Ideas
Years
Idiots
Later
Provide
Twenty
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For each man there awaits... a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.
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Men
Particular
Universe
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Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
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Compare
Reason
Begin
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Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
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Religion
Atheism
Positive Atheism
Sexual
Scientifically
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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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Love
Different Kinds
Love Is
Oblivious
People
Solitude
Two
Love Love Is People
Two People
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Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.
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Absence
Eruption
Real
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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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Book
Reviews
Should
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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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Bird
Nocturnal
Sides
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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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Golden
Memories
Streets
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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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Dream
Mind
Reality
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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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Cities
Community
Loner
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Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.
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Truth
Errors
May
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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.
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Errors
Flower
Garden
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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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Doors
People
Solitude
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O months of blossoming, months of transfigurations, May without cloud and June stabbed to the heart, I shall not ever forget the lilacs or the roses Nor those the spring has kept folded away apart.
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Heart
Spring
Summer
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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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Appearance
Fire
Reality
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What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your fork, stripped of Ophelia's useless ornaments, fire in your large nostrils, out to rake the muck of metaphors.
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Fire
Lazy
Wine
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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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Book
Demand
Footsteps
Grammar
Judged
Lice
Logic
People
Severity
Style
Rules
Books
Beneath
Commas
Head
Seek
Utmost
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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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Beautiful
Dark
Moving
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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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Dream
Abstract
Reality
Wake Up
Waking
Apparent
Expelled
Fused
Phantom
Reached
Realities
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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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Illustration
Photography
Squares
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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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Imagination
Men
Errors
Flight
Ideas
Mania
Senses
Prefer
Error
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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.
Louis Aragon / Poet
Truth
Black
Black And White
Clash
Conflict
Darkness
Errors
Light
Meaningful
Opposites
Relation
White
Zone
Exist
Error
Intoxicating
Pungent
Terms
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It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do not be deterred by headaches. First of all, this would be proof of your lack of stamina. And then, migraines, piercing pain and sudden stabs at the temples are more likely the effects of syphilis than of hard work.
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Hard Work
Pain
Reading
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Your heart like a hawk-mouth in the sun, your heart like a ship on an atoll, your heart like a compass needle driven mad by a little piece of lead, like washing drying in the wind, like a whining of horses, like seed thrown to the birds, like an evening paper one has finished reading! Your heart is a charade that the whole world has guessed.
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Heart
Horse
Reading
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The vice named surrealism is the immoderate and impassioned use of the stupefacient image or rather of the uncontrolled provocation of the image for its own sake and for the element of unpredictable perturbation and of metamorphosis which it introduces into the domain of representation; for each image on each occasion forces you to revise the entire Universe.
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Elements
Use
Vices
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There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.
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Men
Eye
Mistake
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No more painters, no more scribblers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more royalists, no more radicals, no more imperialists, no more anarchists, no more socialists, no more communists, no more proletariat, no more democrats, no more republicans, no more bourgeois, no more aristocrats, no more arms, no more police, no more nations, an end at last to all this stupidity, nothing left, nothing at all, nothing, nothing.
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Musician
Police
Stupidity
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The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.
Louis Aragon / Poet
Men
Marine
Swings
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I shall always rebel against any attempt to reduce a human being to a kind of mannequin, whose deeds and questions would be comprehensible like the deeds and gestures of monarchs recorded day after day in official communiques. Six months of a life cannot catalogue the vitality, the activity of an individual; only death stops development and then, what is important is the overall meaning of a life, not the details of that life, edifying to some, scandalous to others.
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Important
Rebel
Vitality
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I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly, if not the inventor, then at least one of the first systematizers of an absurd critical practice that, as soon as it had peeked its beak out of the nest, flapping its new wet wings, took flight in the minds of the young, becoming a wild ox and sowing avant-garde literature with the mighty tomes of what might as well be called the abstract bear.
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Practice
Responsibility
Wings
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