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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
Andre Breton
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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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The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream, the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion.
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We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
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A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.
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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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Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.
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The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd.
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Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.
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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 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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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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When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?
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How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
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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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Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.
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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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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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The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly
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