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It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.
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
Andre Breto
René Dobrant
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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 am the soul in limbo.
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...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.
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The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.
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At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps even welcome, like clearings in the woods, the better to allow the heart's rays to stream out without obstacle. The unlit shadows should remain obscure, which is the very condition of enchantment.
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Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.'
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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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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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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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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
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The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
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