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It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.
Andre Breton
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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
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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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Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream, the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for a long while ceased to merit discussion.
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The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows
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Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
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I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to find out what it looks out on... and there is nothing I love so much as something which stretches away from me out of sight.
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The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
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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 clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.
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Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.
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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.
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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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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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For me, the single word God suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.
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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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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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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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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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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
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