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• We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.
• Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.
• Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use…
• We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs…
• My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks…
• Nothing is confused except the mind.
• To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout…
• The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.
• The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is…
• I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative…
• I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.
• If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing…

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