Louis Aragon :
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.
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Literary Criticism
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Books - Reading
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Grammar
Gift it
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