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The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.
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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
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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. It consists of jolts and shocks, many of which do not have much importance, but which we know are destined to produce one Shock, which does...The human heart, beautiful as a seismograph...Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all.
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Words make love with one another.
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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
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I am the soul in limbo.
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A game: say something. Close your eyes and say something. Anything, a number, a name. Like this (she closes her eyes): Two, two what? Two women. What do they look like? Wearing black. Where are they? In a park. . . . And then, what are they doing? Try it, it's so easy, why don't you want to play? You know, that's how I talk to myself when I'm alone, I tell myself all kinds of stories. And not only silly stories: actually, I live this way altogether.
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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 than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
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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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More Andre Breton Quotes
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The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.
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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 and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!
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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
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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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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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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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To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery —even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness —is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.
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