"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."
-Andre 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.“
-Andre Breton
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