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

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