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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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Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. – Louis Aragon

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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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