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May night continue to fall upon the orchestra
Andre Breton
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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
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Andre Breton
D'André Breton
Andre Breto
René Dobrant
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Night
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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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Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.
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There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
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The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.
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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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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
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My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
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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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It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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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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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
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I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.
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We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
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Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.
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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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Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express - verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner - the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.
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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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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
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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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