Andre Breton
Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
-Andre Breton
beauty
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.
-Andre Breton
death
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
dreams
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.
-Andre Breton
freedom
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.
-Andre Breton
future
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.
-Andre Breton
learning
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
-Andre Breton
life
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
-Andre Breton
love
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
-Andre Breton
love
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
-Andre Breton
nature
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
-Andre Breton
science
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