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Andre Breton [1896-1966] French
Rank: 102
Poet (with poems), Writer

Surrealism, Dada, Atheism


André Breton was a French writer, poet, anarchist and anti-fascist. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism".

Love, Beauty, Dreams, Science



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What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.
101
It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
102
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
103
Words make love with one another.
104
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. Love
105
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. Love
106
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. Dreams
107
Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all. Beauty
108
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. Science
109
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
110
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.
111
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.
112
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
113
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
114
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
115
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.
116

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