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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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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots 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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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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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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