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Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love.

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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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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Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.
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Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express - verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner - the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.
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Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.
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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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Words make love with one another.
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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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The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
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I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own.
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I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green
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Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principle problems of life.
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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.
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Dada is a state of mind.
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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 insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors I will not go looking for keys.
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For me, the single word God suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.
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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
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Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do like drugs, it creates a certain state of need and can push man to frightful revolts.
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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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