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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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My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
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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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I am the soul in limbo.
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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.
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We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
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At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.
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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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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.
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What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.
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There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of loving you Always for the first time
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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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How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
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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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Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love.
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Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought. Thought's dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation.
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Words make love with one another.
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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.
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It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!
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For me, the single word God suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.
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