Quote by Andre Breton
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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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Natures chief masterpiece is writing well. – Andre Breton

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In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again. – 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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A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded. – Abraham Lincoln

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The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. – Oscar Wilde

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Youre not an M.P., youre a gastronomic pimp. – Aneurin Bevan

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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say. – Ramsey Clark

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