André Breton Quotes
The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodatio...
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The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscur...
Show MoreI myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where e...
Show MoreKeep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
The imaginary is what tends to become real.
Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediat...
Show MoreAll my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and ...
Show MoreNothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches s...
Show MoreIl faut que l’homme s’évade de cette lice ridicule qu’on lui a faite: le prétendu réel actuel avec l...
Show More(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshnes...
Show MoreThe lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in ...
Show MoreThe man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.""Love is when you meet someone who tell...
Show MoreWhat is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only t...
Show MoreMay night continue to fall upon the orchestra
Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.
It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physi...
Show MoreHumor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suf...
Show MoreBecause of the earth’s roundness, Genghis Khan, in the fever of possession and destruction, hastened...
Show MoreNothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
We are in front of a fountain, whose jet she seems to be watching. 'Those are your thoughts and mine...
Show MoreBeauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unex...
Show MoreIt is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more...
Show MoreTell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you are.
A word and everything is saved.A word and all is lost.
The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which...
Show MoreI am the soul in limbo.
My wife with the hair of a wood fireWith the thoughts of heat lightningWith the waist of an hourglas...
Show MoreThe clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.
We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
They rarely discovered a star red as a distant crime or a star-fish.
My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect ...
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