All Andre Breton Quotes
- There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of loving you Always… Absence
- May night continue to fall upon the orchestra Continue
- The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the… Attests
- The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly Act
- 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… Beautiful
- Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing. Allows
- The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious… Absurd
- 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… Become Utterly
- Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose. Choose
- At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely… Beautiful
- 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… Bright
- I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys. Ajar
- Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to… Acknowledge
- We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing. All
- The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up. Clouds
- There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state. Adults
- What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real. Admirable
- Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject. All
- The imaginary is what tends to become real. Become Real
- The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has… Among
- It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that… Age
- The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot. Cannot Visualize
- My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness. Love
- I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from the the ceiling… Always See
- Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything. Inspirational