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
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense? – Louis Aragon
Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. – Louis Aragon
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. – Louis Aragon
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. – Vaclav Havel