"The function of genius is to furnish cretins……" — Louis Aragon
"The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later."
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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 Cretins Quotes
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one of 7 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!
— Tom Robbins
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The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins.
— Hans von Bulow
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I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling…
— Piers Anthony
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If there is a true measure of a person's soul, if there is a single gauge of real divinity, of…
— Mark Morford
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Been around the world and found That only stupid people are breeding The cretins cloning and feeding And I don't…
— Blink 182
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, all good cretins go to heaven.
— The Ramones
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