Quote by Louis Aragon
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas

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

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I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. – Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, 1911

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This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present. – Deepak Chopra

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The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius. – Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. – Henry Ward Beecher

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