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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

André Breton

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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.

André Breton

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Tags in Amazed, Credence, Events, Lends, Observer, Occurring, Always, Than, His, Plaything, Waking, Above, Ordinary, More, Much, Been, Way, Those, Importance, Man, Attach

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

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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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