Louis Aragon Quotes
Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.
There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies. Unknown, ever-changing gods take shape there.
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.
The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds.
For each man there awaits... a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.
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.
The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.
Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.
That you are not already golden word in our streets Already memories Your love fades Already Whether you are no longer to have perished.
Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great beasts await them, fat and docile.
