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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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Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. – 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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The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius. – Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. – W. H. Auden

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