Louis Aragon Quotes

Louis Aragon — French Poet born on October 03, 1897, died on December 24, 1982

Louis Aragon was a French poet, novelist and editor, a long-time member of the Communist Party and a member of the Académie Goncourt... (wikipedia)

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.

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 Quotes

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