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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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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
Art Theorist
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Essayist
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Chicago
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Andre Breton
D'André Breton
Andre Breto
René Dobrant
Surrealism
Admirable
Fantastic
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Anything
Real

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