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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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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
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Andre Breton
D'André Breton
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The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.
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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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...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.
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Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins.
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Dada is a state of mind.
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I am the soul in limbo.
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May night continue to fall upon the orchestra
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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
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I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green
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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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For me, the single word God suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.
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Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.
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When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?
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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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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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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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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
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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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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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I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.
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