“ Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. Andre Breton
“ 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… Andre Breton
“ Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. Andre Breton
“ 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
“ 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… Andre Breton
“ 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… Andre Breton
“ What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real. Andre Breton
“ I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unexpected violently fortuitous character, and the kind of associations of suspect ideas they provoke. Andre Breton
“ It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms. Andre Breton
“ All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.""Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself Andre Breton
“ We are in front of a fountain, whose jet she seems to be watching. 'Those are your thoughts and mine. Look where they all start from, how high they reach, and then how it's still prettier when they fa… Andre Breton
“ The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children. Andre Breton
“ There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state. Andre Breton
