Louis Aragon Quotes

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

Louis Aragon

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Louis Aragon

O months of blossoming, months of transfigurations, May without cloud and June stabbed to the heart, I shall not ever forget the lilacs or the roses Nor those the spring has kept folded away apart.

Louis Aragon

O month of flowerings, month of metamorphoses,
May without cloud and June that was stabbed,
I shall never forget the lilac and the roses
Nor those whom spring has kept in its folds.

Louis Aragon

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Louis Aragon

There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error.

Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon

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Born: October 3, 1897

Died: December 24, 1982 (aged 85)

Bio: Louis Aragon was a French poet, novelist and editor, a long-time member of the Communist Party and a member of the Académie Goncourt.

Known for:

Aurélien (1944)
Le Paysan de Paris (1926)
Irene's Cunt
Les yeux d'Elsa (1942)
La Diane française (1944)

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