...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours. Andre Breton More Quotes by Andre Breton More Quotes From Andre Breton Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything. Andre Breton reminding-yourselfsaddestliterature At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful. Andre Breton trialsoppositesbeautiful 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 finding-yourselffatetrying Dada is a state of mind. Andre Breton state-of-mindstatesmind It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. Andre Breton surrealismexistenceelsewhere When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas? Andre Breton grantedarbitraryideas I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green Andre Breton eggssealove-you I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys. Andre Breton keysdoorsbook The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly Andre Breton surrealistcrowdsgun How I loathe the servitude people try to hold up to me as being so valuable. I pity the man who is condemned to it, who cannot generally escape it, but it is not the burden of his labor that disposes me in his favor, it is - it can only be - the vigor of his protest against it. Andre Breton tryingmenpeople No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. Andre Breton appealsvainexample The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. Anyone who, at least once in his life, has not dreamed of thus putting an end to the petty system of debasement and cretinization in effect has a well-defined place in that crowd with his belly at barrel-level. Andre Breton crowdslevelshands Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins. Do not forget to make proper arrangements for your last will and testament: speaking personally, I ask that I be taken to the cemetery in a moving van. May my friends destroy every last copy of the printing of the Speech concerning the Modicum of Reality. Andre Breton love-youmemoriesmoving The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows Andre Breton identityreflectionmen The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. Andre Breton pistolscrowdshands Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all. Andre Breton beauty Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to me alone- over and above a sum of movements I am conscious of making, of emotions I alone experience- I strive, in relation to other men, to discover the nature, if not the necessity, of my difference from them. Is it not precisely to the degree I become conscious of this difference that I shall recognize what I alone have been put on this earth to do, what unique message I alone may bear, so that I alone can answer for its fate? Andre Breton fateuniquemen I believe in the pure Surrealist joy of the man who, forewarned that all others before him have failed, refused to admit defeat, sets off from watever point he chooses, along any other pat save a reasonable one, and arrives wherever he can. Andre Breton joymenbelieve Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principle problems of life. Andre Breton psychicsdreamreality There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. Andre Breton atheismlibertydanger
