The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.
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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.Louis Aragon
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 will be no greater.
Louis Aragon
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
Louis Aragon
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 of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind . . .
Louis Aragon
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 imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
Louis Aragon
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