André Breton

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Biography : French writer and poet.
Born: 1896 - Died: 1966
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

France

André Breton - Quotes

One word and all is saved
One word and all is lost.
André Breton - Le revolver à cheveux blancs /

word

One word and all is saved
One word and all is lost.

Words make love.
André Breton /

It is perhaps childhood that comes closest to one's 'real life'.
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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
André Breton

beauty

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
André 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 plaything of his memory.
André Breton

dream

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

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

love

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.
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.
André 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.
André Breton

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
André Breton

writing

Love is always before you. Love it.
André Breton /

love