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The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly
Andre Breton
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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
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The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
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It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.
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It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.
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If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.
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A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.
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My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
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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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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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