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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.
Andre Breton
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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
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The imaginary is what tends to become real.
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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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The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
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