Louis Aragón

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

"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."

"Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?"

"O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself."

"It sometimes happens that pleasure blows anywhere it damn well chooses."

"Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine."

"As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!"