The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose. — Andre Breton Freedom Copy Share Image
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. — Andre Breton Love Copy Share Image
Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“On est venu, il y a quelques mois, m'apprendre que Nadja était folle.” — André Breton Copy Share Image
The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot. — Andre Breton Art Copy Share Image
“Living and ceasing to live are imaginary solutions; existence is elsewhere.” — Andre Breton Existence Copy Share Image
“…It would be hateful to refuse whatever she asks of me, one way or another, for she is so pure, so free… — André Breton Copy Share Image
“Intellectually, true beauty is very difficult to distinguish a priori from the bloom of youth.” — André Breton Beauty Copy Share Image
I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for… — Andre Breton Book Copy Share Image
When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas? — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults… — Andre Breton Absurd Copy Share Image
Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything. — Andre Breton Books Copy Share Image
“I would like to sleep, in order to surrender myself to the dreamers, the way I surrender myself to those who read… — André Breton Copy Share Image
Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion… — Andre Breton Education Copy Share Image
At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in… — Andre Breton Absence Copy Share Image
The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of… — Andre Breton Beautiful Copy Share Image
Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“It was really a star, a star you were heading toward. You can't fail to reach it. Hearing you speak, I felt… — André Breton Copy Share Image
How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is… — Andre Breton Burden Copy Share Image
What’s the good of these great fragile fits of enthusiasm, these jaded jumps of joys? We know nothing anymore, but the dead… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“Even that great poverty which had been and remains mine let up for a few days. I was not, as it happens,… — Andre Breton Life Copy Share Image
“Unless you have been inside a sanitarium you do not know that madmen are made there, just as criminals are made in… — André Breton Copy Share Image
Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with… — Andre Breton Arrangements Copy Share Image
“The idea of love walked along the water and her gaze was full of absence and her eyes spat lighting. The impressionable… — André Breton Love Copy Share Image
“L'union libre [Freedom of Love]" My wife with the hair of a wood fire With the thoughts of heat lightning With the… — Andre Breton Freedom Copy Share Image
“When the windows like the jackal’s eye and desire pierce the dawn, silken windlasses lift me up to suburban footbridges. I summon… — André Breton Desire Copy Share Image
A game: say something. Close your eyes and say something. Anything, a number, a name. Like this (she closes her eyes): Two,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours. — Andre Breton Beginning Copy Share Image
My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness. — Andre Breton Being in love Copy Share Image
Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling. — Andre Breton Dating Copy Share Image
It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself. — Andre Breton Anarchism Copy Share Image