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Category: André 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 low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Life, Future, Past

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

Art, Desire, Nothing

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Life, Heart, Name

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.

Man, Memory, Way

I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from the the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond.

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.

suffering, witch

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.

facts, impressions

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

love, meet, new, someone, yourself

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.

clairvoyance, sun

Time is a tease

May night continue to fall upon the orchestra

night, orchestra, surrealism

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