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I am the soul in limbo.

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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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The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly
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The imaginary is what tends to become real.
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It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.
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In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.
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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
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Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
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Dada is a state of mind.
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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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For me, the single word God suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.
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One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and why it still expects nothing save from violence.
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Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
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Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
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