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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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D'André Breton
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We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
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I maintain that anyone who still refuses to see, for instance, a horse galloping on a tomato, must be an idiot. A tomato is also a child's balloon - Surrealism, again, having suppressed the word like.
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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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The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream, the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion.
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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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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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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.
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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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Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
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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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What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.
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I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.
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The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
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Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
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I believe in the pure Surrealist joy of the man who, forewarned that all others before him have failed, refused to admit defeat, sets off from watever point he chooses, along any other pat save a reasonable one, and arrives wherever he can.
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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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Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.
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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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