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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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 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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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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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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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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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
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For me, the single word God suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.
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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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Words make love with one another.
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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
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I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green
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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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