Louis Aragon Quotes

Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the 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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Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

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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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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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Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.

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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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