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The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is

The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations. – Andre Breton

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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

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Freedom
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Andre Breton
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Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads. – Andre Breton

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Escape, Escapism
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Andre Breton
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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

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Imagination
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Andre Breton
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There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself. – William Hazlitt

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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public. – Johann von Goethe

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Public

The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable. – Michel de Montaigne

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Public

I dont believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career. – Charlie Chaplin

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Public

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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but were being fooled, because democracy is not the election. Weve been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isnt. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. Its the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect. – Gael Garcia Bernal

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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. – Karl Marx

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