Andre Breton Quotes
Andre Breton Quotes
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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
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- 2
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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- 3
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, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
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- 4
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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- 6
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
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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 this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
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- 8
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
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- 10
Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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- 11
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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- 12
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, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
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- 13
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
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- 14
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 than what one allows others to find.
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