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The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
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Birth: | 19th February, 1896 |
Death: | 28th September, 1966 |
Nationality: | French |
Profession: | Poet, Writer |
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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