André Breton Quotes

• Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

  André Breton

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• The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

  André Breton

  Topics in Art

• Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.

  André Breton

  Topics in Life

• My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

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  Topics in Love

• All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

  André Breton

  Topics in Life, Love

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• The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

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  Topics in Past

  Tags in Meditation, Avoid

• Aim for the highest.

  Andrew Carnegie

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• Words make love with one another.

  André Breton

  Topics in Love

• 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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• There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

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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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  Tags in Forgotten

• Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well.

  André Breton

  Topics in Nature

• Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Desire

• No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

  André Breton

  Topics in Life

• 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.

  André Breton

  Topics in Life

• Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

  André Breton

  Topics in Love

• It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

  André Breton

• 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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  Topics in Love

• 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.

  André Breton

  Topics in Death, Life

• Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

  André Breton

  Topics in Genius

André Breton (22)

Birth:	19th February, 1896
Death:	28th September, 1966
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Poet, Writer

About

André Breton was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto  of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism". He studied medicine and psychiatry. In a publication The Magnetic Fields, a collaboration with Soupault, he implemented the principle of automatic writing. He was editor of the magazine La Révolution surréaliste from 1924.

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