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...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.
Andre Breton
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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
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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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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
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We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
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The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
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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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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
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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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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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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 is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.
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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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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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The imaginary is what tends to become real.
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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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In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.
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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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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
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The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.
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The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.
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The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
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