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I must confess that I and a f...

I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly, if not the inventor, then at least one of the first systematizers of an absurd critical practice that, as soon as it had peeked its beak out of the nest, flapping its new wet wings, took flight in the minds of the young, becoming a wild ox and sowing avant-garde literature with the mighty tomes of what might as well be called the abstract bear.

Louis Aragon 51 quotes

O months of blossoming, month...

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 51 quotes

There exists a black kingdom ...

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 with its unknown characteristics. 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 51 quotes

The carnal contact side by si...

The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds.

Louis Aragon 51 quotes

Error is certainty's constant...

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 51 quotes

I shall always rebel against ...

I shall always rebel against any attempt to reduce a human being to a kind of mannequin, whose deeds and questions would be comprehensible like the deeds and gestures of monarchs recorded day after day in official communiques. Six months of a life cannot catalogue the vitality, the activity of an individual; only death stops development and then, what is important is the overall meaning of a life, not the details of that life, edifying to some, scandalous to others.

Louis Aragon 51 quotes

In our day there are no longe...

In our day there are no longer any ideas, or they are scarcer than hens' teeth.

Louis Aragon 51 quotes

It is time to return to close...

It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do not be deterred by headaches. First of all, this would be proof of your lack of stamina. And then, migraines, piercing pain and sudden stabs at the temples are more likely the effects of syphilis than of hard work.

Louis Aragon 51 quotes

Reality is the apparent absen...

Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.

Louis Aragon 51 quotes

That you are not already gold...

That you are not already golden word in our streets Already memories Your love fades Already Whether you are no longer to have perished.

Louis Aragon 51 quotes

The authors of book reviews w...

The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.

Louis Aragon 51 quotes

It sometimes happens that ple...

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

Louis Aragon 51 quotes

There are other relations bes...

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.

Louis Aragon 51 quotes

Of all possible sexual perver...

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.

Louis Aragon 51 quotes

Light is meaningful only in r...

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.

Louis Aragon 51 quotes

Love is made by two people, i...

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Louis Aragon 51 quotes

O reason, reason, abstract ph...

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.

Louis Aragon 51 quotes

Fear of error which everythin...

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

Louis Aragon 51 quotes

We know that the nature of ge...

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

Louis Aragon 51 quotes

I demand that my books be jud...

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 51 quotes

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....