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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
Andre Breto
René Dobrant
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There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work.
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We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
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Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.
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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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It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first sight' and 'honeymoon'. All this shoddy terminology is on top of that tainted with the most reactionary irony.
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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.
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Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.
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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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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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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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What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.
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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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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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The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
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What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.
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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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The imaginary is what tends to become real.
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The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
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