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

Louis Aragon Myself You Reason

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

~ Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Reason Sense Compare

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

Louis Aragon Life Light Black And White

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

~ Louis Aragon

Louis Aragon Nature Ideas Genius