Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.

Andre Breton

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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

Andre Breton

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Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.

Andre Breton

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Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.

Andre Breton

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The imaginary is what tends to become real.

Andre Breton

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I maintain that anyone who still refuses to see, for instance, a horse galloping on a tomato, must be an idiot. A tomato is also a child's balloon - Surrealism, again, having suppressed the word "like."

Andre Breton

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Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express - verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner - the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

Andre Breton

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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.

Andre Breton

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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Andre Breton

names heart love

To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

Andre Breton

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My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

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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I am the soul in limbo.

Andre Breton

limbo soul

The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.

Andre Breton

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It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.

Andre Breton

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A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.

Andre Breton

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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

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The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb.

Andre Breton

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At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps even welcome, like clearings in the woods, the better to allow the heart's rays to stream out without obstacle. The unlit shadows should remain obscure, which is the very condition of enchantment.

Andre Breton

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The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.

Andre Breton

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Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love.

Andre Breton

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