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Andre Breton
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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
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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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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.
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May night continue to fall upon the orchestra
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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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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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Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
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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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Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.
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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
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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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Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
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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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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.
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If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.
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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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The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
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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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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 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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