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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
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Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
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How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
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To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.
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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 imaginary is what tends to become real.
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Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
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My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
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I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to find out what it looks out on... and there is nothing I love so much as something which stretches away from me out of sight.
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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
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