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title: "3 Bullet Quotes By André Breton"
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> [The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andr-breton/the-purest-surrealist-act-is-walking-into-a-crowd-with-a-loaded-gun/)

[Andre Breton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andr-breton/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6dd/andr-breton-2478_crowds_the-purest-surrealist-act-is-walking-int_1114919.jpg)

> [The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andr-breton/the-simplest-surrealist-act-consists-of-dashing-down-into-the-street/)

[Andre Breton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andr-breton/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/884/andr-breton-2478_crowds_the-simplest-surrealist-act-consists-of_1225103.jpg)

> [The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andr-breton/the-simplest-act-of-surrealism-is-to-walk-out-into-the-street-gun-in/)

[Andre Breton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andr-breton/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/605/andr-breton-2478_altruism_the-simplest-act-of-surrealism-is-to-wal_1564767.jpg)

## Other authors on Bullet

## More by André Breton

> [Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andr-breton/of-all-the-arts-in-which-the-wise-excel-nature-s-chief-masterpiece-is/)

[Andre Breton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andr-breton/)

> [Under his (Marc Chagall, ed.) sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andr-breton/under-his-marc-chagall-ed-sole-impulse-metaphor-made-its-triumphal/)

[Andre Breton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andr-breton/)

> [Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andr-breton/psychic-automatism-in-its-pure-state-by-which-one-proposes-to-express/)

[Andre Breton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andr-breton/)

> [The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andr-breton/the-art-of-frida-kahlo-is-a-ribbon-around-a-bomb/)

[Andre Breton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andr-breton/)

> [“Let us not mince words: The marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beauitful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andr-breton/let-us-not-mince-words-the-marvelous-is-always-beautiful-anything/)

[Andre Breton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andr-breton/)

> [“There has never been any forbidden fruit. Only temptation is divine. To feel the need to vary the object of this temptation, to replace…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andr-breton/there-has-never-been-any-forbidden-fruit-only-temptation-is-divine-to/)

[André Breton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andr-breton/)

> [“It was really a star, a star you were heading toward. You can't fail to reach it. Hearing you speak, I felt that nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andr-breton/it-was-really-a-star-a-star-you-were-heading-toward-you-can-t-fail-to/)

[André Breton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andr-breton/)

> [“All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.” andre breton”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andr-breton/all-my-life-my-heart-has-yearned-for-a-thing-i-cannot-name-andre/)

[andre breton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andr-breton/)

> [“Unless you have been inside a sanitarium you do not know that madmen are made there, just as criminals are made in our reformatories.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andr-breton/unless-you-have-been-inside-a-sanitarium-you-do-not-know-that-madmen/)

[André Breton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andr-breton/)

> [A game: say something. Close your eyes and say something. Anything, a number, a name. Like this (she closes her eyes): Two, two what?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andr-breton/a-game-say-something-close-your-eyes-and-say-something-anything-a/)

[Andre Breton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andr-breton/)

> [...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andr-breton/with-the-end-of-my-breath-which-is-the-beginning-of-yours/)

[Andre Breton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andr-breton/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andr-breton/past-and-future-monopolize-the-poet-s-sensory-and-intellectual/)

[Andre Breton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andr-breton/)

> [If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andr-breton/if-i-place-love-above-everything-it-is-because-for-me-it-is-the-most/)

[Andre Breton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andr-breton/)

> [I am the soul in limbo.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andr-breton/i-am-the-soul-in-limbo/)

[Andre Breton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andr-breton/)

> [Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andr-breton/surrealism-will-usher-you-into-death-which-is-a-secret-society-it/)

[Andre Breton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andr-breton/)

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