Andre Breton
Poet
1896-02-18 – 1966-09-28
Andre Breton was a French writer and poet best known as a founder and principal theorist of Surrealism.
Quotes by Andre Breton
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
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