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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
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René Dobrant
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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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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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The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly
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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.
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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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A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.
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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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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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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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It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.
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The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.
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Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
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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 art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.
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How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
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Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.
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To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.
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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
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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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