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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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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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Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. – Louis Aragon

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Truth
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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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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with mans physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. – Charles Baudelaire

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

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Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead. – Robert S. Lynd

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