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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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Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought. Thought's dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation.
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Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.
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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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It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first sight' and 'honeymoon'. All this shoddy terminology is on top of that tainted with the most reactionary irony.
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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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When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?
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Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.
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The imaginary is what tends to become real.
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The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.
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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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Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
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For me, the single word God suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.
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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
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Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principle problems of life.
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I am the soul in limbo.
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Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do like drugs, it creates a certain state of need and can push man to frightful revolts.
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Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins.
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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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It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.
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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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