62 Quotes by Louis Aragon

And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great beasts await them, fat and docile.

Croire au soleil quand tombe l'eau.

الشعر هو الدليل الملموس الوحيد على وجود الإنسان

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

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

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.

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

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.