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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.
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 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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...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.
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At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.
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My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
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How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is condemned to it, who cannot generally escape it, but it is not the burden of his labor that disposes me in his favor, it is - it can only be - the vigor of his protest against it.
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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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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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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.
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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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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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Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love.
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We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
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Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.
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Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.
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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
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For me, the single word God suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.
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There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work.
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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
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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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