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The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
Andre Breton
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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
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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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The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly
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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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Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.
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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
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Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
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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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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
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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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May night continue to fall upon the orchestra
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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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Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.'
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I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from the the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond.
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The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.
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Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
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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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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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My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
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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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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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