"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."
-Andre Breton
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"Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.“
-Andre Breton
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"Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well."
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