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...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.

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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.
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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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There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work.
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Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.
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The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
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Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.
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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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Dada is a state of mind.
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Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.'
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At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps even welcome, like clearings in the woods, the better to allow the heart's rays to stream out without obstacle. The unlit shadows should remain obscure, which is the very condition of enchantment.
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How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
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Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.
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Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.
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The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green
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