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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
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Andre Breton
D'André Breton
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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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It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.
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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.
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Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
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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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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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When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?
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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.
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To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.
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Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
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Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.
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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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Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.
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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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Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.
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I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.
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It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.
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I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green
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I maintain that anyone who still refuses to see, for instance, a horse galloping on a tomato, must be an idiot. A tomato is also a child's balloon - Surrealism, again, having suppressed the word like.
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