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What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.
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
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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
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I am the soul in limbo.
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It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.
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Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.
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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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The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly
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It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.
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I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green
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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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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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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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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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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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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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There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work.
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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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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
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It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.
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