Andre Breton Quotes

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• All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
• Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
• 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…
• Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize,…
• Words make love with one another.
• Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
• If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
• Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined,…
• Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
• No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that…
• It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
• No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
• Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.
• Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.
• To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God…
• Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
• The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
• Beauty is like a train that ceaselessly roars out of the Gare de Lyon and which I know will never leave, which has not left.…
• When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?
• It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.

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