Quote by Louis Aragon
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledg

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. – Louis Aragon

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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

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

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Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense? – Louis Aragon

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Criticism should be a casual conversation. – W. H. Auden

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All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. – Anon.

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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. – Walter Benjamin

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Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath. – Bible

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