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One Quotes by Andre Breton
- Words make love with one another.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless…
- What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less…
- The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes…
- Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner…
- One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and…
- Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
- 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…
- Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
- I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a…
- There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his…
- Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
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