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

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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. – Phillips Brooks

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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. – Samuel Butler

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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience. – Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon

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