Maxioms by Louis Aragon
Love is made by two people in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an read more
Love is made by two people in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an oblivious crowd.
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which make it read more
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.
The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, read more
The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.
