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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Andre Breton
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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
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The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
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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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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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I believe in the pure Surrealist joy of the man who, forewarned that all others before him have failed, refused to admit defeat, sets off from watever point he chooses, along any other pat save a reasonable one, and arrives wherever he can.
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When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?
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The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.
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Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
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Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.
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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
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Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love.
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In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.
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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.
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It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.
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I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.
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Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
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I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green
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How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
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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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How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is condemned to it, who cannot generally escape it, but it is not the burden of his labor that disposes me in his favor, it is - it can only be - the vigor of his protest against it.
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