Quotes of Andre Breton - somelinesforyou

“ Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. ”

- Andre Breton

“ My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness. ”

- Andre Breton

“ Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. ”

- Andre Breton

“ Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. ”

- Andre Breton

“ My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness. ”

- Andre Breton

“ Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose. ”

- Andre Breton

“ Il faut que l’homme s’évade de cette lice ridicule qu’on lui a faite: le prétendu réel actuel avec la perspective d’un réel futur qui ne vaille guère mieux. Chaque minute pleine porte en ellemême la négation de siècles d’histoire boitillante et cassée. Ceux à qui il appartient de faire virevolter ces huit flamboyants audessus de nous ne le pourront qu’avec de la sève pure._ Manifestes du surréalisme ”

- Andre Breton

“ L'union libre [Freedom of Love]" My wife with the hair of a wood fire With the thoughts of heat lightning With the waist of an hourglass With the waist of an otter in the teeth of a tiger My wife with the lips of a cockade and of a bunch of stars of the last magnitude With the teeth of tracks of white mice on the white earth With the tongue of rubbed amber and glass My wife with the tongue of a stabbed host With the tongue of a doll that opens and closes its eyes With the tongue of an unbelievable stone My wife with the eyelashes of strokes of a child's writing With brows of the edge of a swallow's nest My wife with the brow of slates of a hothouse roof And of steam on the panes My wife with shoulders of champagne And of a fountain with dolphinheads beneath the ice My wife with wrists of matches My wife with fingers of luck and ace of hearts With fingers of mown hay My wife with armpits of marten and of beechnut And of Midsummer Night Of privet and of an angelfish nest With arms of seafoam and of riverlocks And of a mingling of the wheat and the mill My wife with legs of flares With the movements of clockwork and despair My wife with calves of eldertree pith My wife with feet of initials With feet of rings of keys and Java sparrows drinking My wife with a neck of unpearled barley My wife with a throat of the valley of gold Of a tryst in the very bed of the torrent With breasts of night My wife with breasts of a marine molehill My wife with breasts of the ruby's crucible With breasts of the rose's spectre beneath the dew My wife with the belly of an unfolding of the fan of days With the belly of a gigantic claw My wife with the back of a bird fleeing vertically With a back of quicksilver With a back of light With a nape of rolled stone and wet chalk And of the drop of a glass where one has just been drinking My wife with hips of a skiff With hips of a chandelier and of arrowfeathers And of shafts of white peacock plumes Of an insensible pendulum My wife with buttocks of sandstone and asbestos My wife with buttocks of swans' backs My wife with buttocks of spring With the sex of an iris My wife with the sex of a miningplacer and of a platypus My wife with a sex of seaweed and ancient sweetmeat My wife with a sex of mirror My wife with eyes full of tears With eyes of purple panoply and of a magnetic needle My wife with savanna eyes My wife with eyes of water to he drunk in prison My wife with eyes of wood always under the axe My wife with eyes of waterlevel of level of air earth and fire ”

- Andre Breton

“ The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us. ”

- Andre Breton

“ We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing. ”

- Andre Breton

“ Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything. ”

- Andre Breton

“ Because of the earth’s roundness, Genghis Khan, in the fever of possession and destruction, hastened his own overthrow by invading lands that he had already razed and conquered. Not only is it impossible to know from where we come, but also from whom we come: nothing in common, in any case, with those who pass for being the “authors of our days” – which days? Better to invent a genealogy based on pure whim and the leanings of our hearts, but what if they don’t agree? ”

- Andre Breton

“ The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows ”

- Andre Breton

“ To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery — even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness — is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be. ”

- Andre Breton

“ To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake I am conscious of having won to the full… ”

- Andre Breton

“ Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all. ”

- Andre Breton

“ 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. ”

- Andre Breton

“ It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. ”

- Andre Breton

“ 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

“ If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. ”

- Andre 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. ”

- Andre Breton

“ To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize, there stands myself. And what I do not recognize, I shall continue not to recognize. ”

- Andre Breton

“ 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

“ To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery — even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness — is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be. ”

- Andre Breton

“ Words make love with one another. ”

- Andre Breton

“ It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere. ”

- Andre 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. ”

- Andre Breton

“ 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

“ The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. ”

- Andre Breton

“ The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. ”

- Andre Breton
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