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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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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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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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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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...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.
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For me, the single word God suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.
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How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
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