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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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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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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Every true genius is bound to be naive. – J.C.F. von Schiller

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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. – Max Beerbohm

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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk

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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. – Simone de Beauvoir

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