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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing...
ANDRE BRETON
Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
ANDRE BRETON
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.
ANDRE MAUROIS
In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.
ANDRE MAUROIS
Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
ANDRE MAUROIS
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Le...
ANDRE GIDE
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
ANDRE MAUROIS
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say -- be...
ANDRE GIDE
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE
Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gard...
ANDRE GIDE
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it...
ANDRE GIDE
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
ANDRE GIDE
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me...
ANDRE BRETON
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discov...
ANDRE MAUROIS
Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from th...
ANDRE GIDE
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious ...
ANDRE GIDE
The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.
ANDRE GODIN
Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.
ANDRE MALRAUX
To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wag...
ANDRE BRETON
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDE
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
ANDRE MALRAUX
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly imp...
ANDRE DUBUS
What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself i...
ANDRE BRETON
Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the ...
ANDRE BRETON
Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There ...
ANDRE BRETON
Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying th...
ANDRE BRETON
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irre...
ANDRE MAUROIS
To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I ...
ANDRE BRETON
The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
ANDRE GIDE
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and le...
ANDRE BRETON
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
ANDRE BRETON
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attem...
ANDRE BRETON
Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leav...
ANDRE BRETON