André Breton quote: "Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today."

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
ANDRé BRETON

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
ANDRé BRETON

I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so co...
ANDRé BRETON

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.
ANDRé BRETON

The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodatio...
ANDRé BRETON

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only t...
ANDRé BRETON

They rarely discovered a star red as a distant crime or a star-fish.
ANDRé BRETON

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
ANDRé BRETON

The imaginary is what tends to become real.
ANDRé BRETON

At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suf...
ANDRé BRETON

I am the soul in limbo.
ANDRé BRETON

(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshnes...
ANDRé BRETON

The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly
ANDRé BRETON

The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in ...
ANDRé BRETON

Uma palavra e tudo está salvo
Uma palavra e tudo está perdido.
ANDRé BRETON

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and ...
ANDRE BRETON

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
ANDRE BRETON

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches s...
ANDRE BRETON

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
NICHOLAS BRETON

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 work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me...
ANDRE BRETON

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

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

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I ...
ANDRE BRETON

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

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional se...
ANDRE BRETON

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of thing...
ANDRE BRETON

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

The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the ...
ANDRE BRETON

To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what ...
ANDRE BRETON

To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.
NICHOLAS BRETON

I wish my deadly foe no worse, Than want of friends, and empty purse.
NICHOLAS BRETON

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

Words make love with one another.
ANDRE BRETON

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between...
ANDRE BRETON

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches s...
ANDRE BRETON

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

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

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

To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery -even though it would mean the elimination of what i...
ANDRE BRETON

The man that cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot
ANDRE BRETON

I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.
NICHOLAS BRETON

We rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb.
NICHOLAS BRETON

I wish to state strongly that protectionist impulses have no place in modern economic governance.
THIERRY BRETON

Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, infamous, sullying, and grotesque is contained for me in ...
ANDRE BRETON

The currency is the sovereignty of China. We believe it best to have informal discussions than have ...
THIERRY BRETON

The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
ANDRE BRETON

I wish my deadly foe no worse, Than want of friends, and empty purse
NICHOLAS BRETON

Overall I'm really happy with the way we played. You couldn't ask for a nicer win after a long layof...
PETER BRETON

I do not love men: I love what devours them.
ANDRé GIDE

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
ANDRé GIDE

When I got back to Marceline, I did not conceal from her how tedious I found all these acquaintances...
ANDRé GIDE

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring...
ANDRé GIDE

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
ANDRé MALRAUX

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRé GIDE

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
ANDRé GIDE

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRé GIDE

The white dogs with black spots were the worst. It wasn't so much their aggression; other dogs were ...
ANDRé ALEXIS

To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my ...
ANDRé BRINK

To think that I had almost fallen for the skin of his hands, his chest, his feet that had never touc...
ANDRé ACIMAN

I cannot," said he, "expect everyone to have my virtues. It's good enough to meet with my vices...
ANDRé GIDE

This authority stood steady as the cathedral itself. The building was raised once and for all, and f...
ANDRé BJERKE

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.
ANDRé BAZIN

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
ANDRé MALRAUX

How I admired people who talked about their vices as though they were distant relatives they'd learn...
ANDRé ACIMAN

This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene...
ANDRé GIDE

In love, no question is ever preposterous.
ANDRé BRINK

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRé GIDE

Agent Tanner sagte, dass die NSA sich etwas einfallen lasseb will. Anselm und Hannah haben sich eben...
MARTINA ANDRé

We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking eco...
ANDRé GLUCKSMANN

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
ANDRé MAUROIS

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
ANDRé MALRAUX

The index, however, remains well below the peak of 60 reached in July last year.
ANDRé ROUX

We had never taken a shower together. We had never even been in the same bathroom together. "Don't f...
ANDRé ACIMAN

It would never have occurred to him that in placing the apricot in my palm he was giving me his ass ...
ANDRé ACIMAN

The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replie...
ANDRé MAUROIS

My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where mea...
ANDRé BRINK

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
ANDRé GIDE

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own sk...
ANDRé BERTHIAUME

The manufacturing sector may be benefiting from the re-acceleration in global industrial production ...
ANDRé ROUX

On balance, purchasing managers remain hesitant in the current manufacturing business climate.
ANDRé ROUX

This confirms that manufacturing conditions are under pressure.
ANDRé ROUX

This indicates that manufacturing activity picked up somewhat in December following the slowdown in ...
ANDRé ROUX

Honestly, do we ask Jean Charest where he bought his pot from? If the person who sold him pot had li...
ANDRé BOISCLAIR

Be careful--with quotations, you can damn anything.
ANDRé MALRAUX

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
ANDRé GIDE

The index is now well above the break-even level of 50, and points to a solid revival in the manufac...
ANDRé ROUX

I accept with humility and with great enthusiasm the mandate you have given me.
ANDRé BOISCLAIR

It is better to be hated for what you are than be loved for something you are not.
ANDRé GIDE

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-impo...
ANDRé GIDE

Mrs. Jean was not participating in a private event. Mrs. Jean was participating in a public event, t...
ANDRé BOISCLAIR

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
ANDRé MALRAUX

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating ...
ANDRé GIDE

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — b...
ANDRé GIDE

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
ANDRé GIDE

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
ANDRé GIDE

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
ANDRé GIDE

Our bodies won't have secrets now.
ANDRé ACIMAN

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRé GIDE

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore
ANDRé GIDE

You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not be...
ANDRé GIDE

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
ANDRé GIDE

Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRé GIDE

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else coul...
ANDRé GIDE

Please do not understand me too quickly.
ANDRé GIDE

Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.
ANDRé GIDE

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
ANDRé GIDE

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
ANDRé GIDE

The color of truth is grey.
ANDRé GIDE

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of oursel...
ANDRé GIDE

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRé GIDE

Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRé GIDE

Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life...
ANDRé GIDE

On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d'abord et longtemps, tout ri...
ANDRé GIDE

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling.
ANDRé GIDE

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRé GIDE

Dare to be yourself
ANDRé GIDE

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRé GIDE

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything m...
ANDRé GIDE

I've never had problems of consumption. I have never been in a situation where I was under the influ...
ANDRé BOISCLAIR

Most people believe it is only by constraint they can get any good out of themselves, and so they li...
ANDRé GIDE

People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don’t always like who they are...
ANDRé ACIMAN

I have a horror of rest; possessions encourage one to indulge in it, and there's nothing like securi...
ANDRé GIDE

I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I tak...
ANDRé GIDE

Will it be here that we shall find a place which will not elude us, or which if it remains does not ...
ANDRé GIDE

I think everyone is wounded in their sex,” I said. “I can’t think of one person who isn’t.
ANDRé ACIMAN

Was our intimacy paid for in the wrong currency? Or is intimacy the desired product no matter where ...
ANDRé ACIMAN

Benjy's greatest wish was for a place where the echelon was clear to all, where the powerful cared f...
ANDRé ALEXIS

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irre...
ANDRé MAUROIS

Was he my home, then, my homecoming? You are my homecoming. When I’m with you and we’re well tog...
ANDRé ACIMAN

They are embossed on every song that was a hit that summer, in every novel I read during and after h...
ANDRé ACIMAN

The world system wide reality is the competitive dog-eat-dog war of all against all (à la Hobbes), ...
ANDRé GUNDER FRANK

As to the efficacy of the policy recommended by Rostow, it speaks for itself: no country, once under...
ANDRé GUNDER FRANK

Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. ...
FABRIZIO DE ANDRé

Ilusão - Só aqueles que conseguem ver atraves dela poderá criar a sua propria.
ANDRé FILIPE MATOS DE SOUSA

Illusion - Only those who can see through her can create his own
ANDRé FILIPE MATOS DE SOUSA

Lies can be created and destroyed however truth can only be transformed from one form to the other w...
ANDRé FILIPE MATOS DE SOUSA

No centrism based on the temporary historical "glory" of any nation or region should any longer be a...
ANDRé GUNDER FRANK AND BARRY K. GILLS

Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.

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Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.

André Breton

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