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Quote by Louis Aragon
The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty yea

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. – Louis Aragon

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Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reasons imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work. – Louis Aragon

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

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Knowledge
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. – E.B. White

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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Genius

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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Genius is childhood recaptured. – Jean Baudrillard

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The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation. – Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life

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