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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.
Andre Breton
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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
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The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.
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How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
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Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.
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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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Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.
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Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.
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There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
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