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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Dreams
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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. – Louis Aragon

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Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else. – Leo Aikman

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To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons. – Charles Baudelaire

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Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

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Never criticize a man until youve walked a mile in his moccasins. – American Indian Proverb

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As with anything creative, change is inevitable. – Enya

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Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart. – H. Ross Perot

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I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day. – Peter Ustinov

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Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down! – Henry Rink

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