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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

Andre Breton

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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
Art Theorist
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Chicago
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Andre Breton
D'André Breton
Andre Breto
René Dobrant
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Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
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How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is condemned to it, who cannot generally escape it, but it is not the burden of his labor that disposes me in his favor, it is - it can only be - the vigor of his protest against it.
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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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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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I am the soul in limbo.
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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
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