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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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Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense? – Louis Aragon

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Knowledge
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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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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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Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. – George-Louis de Buffon

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Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. – Napoleon Bonaparte, Discours de Lyon, 1771

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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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