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Men Quotes by Andre Breton
- 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…
- Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts…
- How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is condemned to it,…
- The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the…
- 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…
- We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
- The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.
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