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Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.

Andre Breton

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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
Art Theorist
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Andre Breton
D'André Breton
Andre Breto
René Dobrant
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I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from the the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond.
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Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins.
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Words make love with one another.
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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.
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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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I am the soul in limbo.
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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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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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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
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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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The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly
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Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.
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...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.
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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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