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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.

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Andre Breton
Age: 70 †
Born: 1896
Born: February 18
Died: 1966
Died: September 28
Art Theorist
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Andre Breton
D'André Breton
Andre Breto
René Dobrant
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How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
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Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
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The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.
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I believe in the pure Surrealist joy of the man who, forewarned that all others before him have failed, refused to admit defeat, sets off from watever point he chooses, along any other pat save a reasonable one, and arrives wherever he can.
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A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.
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Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought. Thought's dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation.
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My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
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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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I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green
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There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of loving you Always for the first time
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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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Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
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The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
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The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
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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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It is impossible for me to envisage a picture as being other than a window, and why my first concern is then to know what it looks out on.
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There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
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We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
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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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