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We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
Andre Breton
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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
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Andre Breton
D'André Breton
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René Dobrant
Love
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It is the whole modern concept of love which should be re-examined, such as is commonly but transparently expressed in phrases like 'love at first sight' and 'honeymoon'. All this shoddy terminology is on top of that tainted with the most reactionary irony.
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For me, the single word God suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.
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I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors I will not go looking for keys.
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There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
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Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.
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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.
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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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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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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
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The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows
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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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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.
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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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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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Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love.
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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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Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.
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