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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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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
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Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
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It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.
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