All Louis Aragon Quotes
- 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,… Black
- 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… Beneath
- 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… Alone
- Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd. Crowd
- There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Each
- 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… Activity
- 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… Anything Said
- We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. Funny
- Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. All
- 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… Anything Said
- I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable... Book
- 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… Absurd
- It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses. Anywhere
- 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… Atoll
- 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… Await
- 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… Abstract
- Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real. Absence
- The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds. Armpit
- Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet. Genius
- Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense? Begin
- 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. Besides
- 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… Domain
- Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine. Dear
- As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body! Body
- The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. Cretins