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What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.


Andre Breton

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DAY ONE

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ANDRE BRETON There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
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ANDRE BRETON My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
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NICHOLAS BRETON To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.
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NICHOLAS BRETON I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.
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ANDRé BRETON We rise with the lark and go to bed with the lamb.
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ANDRé BRETON The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.
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ANDRE MAUROIS Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
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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 If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discov...
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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 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 Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irre...
ANDRE MAUROIS The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
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ANDRE DUBUS We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity -- gunpowder and romantic love.
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FATHER ANDRE No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on co...
ANDRE GIDE Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDE Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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ANDRE AGASSI It has meant a lot to me to challenge the best players in the world and to beat them. And it means a...
ANDRE AGASSI A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
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ANDRE MAUROIS Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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ANDRE GIDE Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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ANDRE MALRAUX Style Is the hallmark of a temperament stamped on the material in hand.
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ANDRE AGASSI It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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ANDRE MAUROIS So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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ANDRE GIDE Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
ANDRE MAUROIS Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to ...
ANDRE BENJAMIN I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world.
ANDRE BALAZS Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
ANDRE GIDE