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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.
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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Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.
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Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.
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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.
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The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.
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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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