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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.
Andre Breton
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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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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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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
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It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.
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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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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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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
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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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The imaginary is what tends to become real.
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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Dada is a state of mind.
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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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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
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Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.
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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 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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Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.
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The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
Andre Breton
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.
Andre Breton
Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.
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