"I demand that my books be judged with……" — 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."
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Louis Aragon
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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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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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It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses.
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