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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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Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.
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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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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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The imaginary is what tends to become real.
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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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The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
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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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When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?
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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
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The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.
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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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I am the soul in limbo.
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