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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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Andre Breton
D'André Breton
Andre Breto
René Dobrant
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A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.
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The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows
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Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.'
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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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The imaginary is what tends to become real.
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My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
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The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.
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Dada is a state of mind.
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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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...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.
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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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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
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I am the soul in limbo.
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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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We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
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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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The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly
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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
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