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The imaginary is what tends to become 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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Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principle problems of life.
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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 pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.
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We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
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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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The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
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I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.
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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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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
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Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.
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When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?
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How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is condemned to it, who cannot generally escape it, but it is not the burden of his labor that disposes me in his favor, it is - it can only be - the vigor of his protest against it.
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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.
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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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Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
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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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