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Words make love with one another.

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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
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Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.
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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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A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.
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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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The imaginary is what tends to become real.
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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
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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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Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.
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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.
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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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...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.
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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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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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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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The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.
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