"Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never…" — Louis Aragon
"Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet."
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25 Quotes by Louis Aragon
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Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our…
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I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and…
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Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for…
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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an…
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There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
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The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity,…
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There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This…
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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
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Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
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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…
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I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable...
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Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that…
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More Genius Quotes
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Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
— Pietro Aretino
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
— Pietro Aretino
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
— Aristotle
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium…
— Antonin Artaud
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow…
— Charles Babbage
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
— Francis Bacon
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much…
— Francis Bacon
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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not…
— Honore de Balzac
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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may…
— George Matthew Adams
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