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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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Religion
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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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Criticism
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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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Genius
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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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Every great genius has an admixture of madness. – Aristotle

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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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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. – Louis Aragon

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