Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
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Andre Breton
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About Andre Breton
André Robert Breton was a French writer and poet, known as a principal theorist and co-founder of surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism".
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Andre BretonOf all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
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.
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 an…
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…
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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 th…
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 an…
Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.