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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
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Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.
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For me, the single word God suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.
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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
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Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.
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What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.
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There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of loving you Always for the first time
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Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.
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I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from the the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond.
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I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors I will not go looking for keys.
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A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.
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I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to find out what it looks out on... and there is nothing I love so much as something which stretches away from me out of sight.
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One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and why it still expects nothing save from violence.
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My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
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The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly
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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
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Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.
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The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
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Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought. Thought's dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation.
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