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Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
Andre Breton
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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
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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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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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Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
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For me, the single word God suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.
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The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.
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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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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
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Dada is a state of mind.
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I am the soul in limbo.
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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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...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.
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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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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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What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.
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Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do like drugs, it creates a certain state of need and can push man to frightful revolts.
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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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We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
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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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Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins.
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