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Quote by Andre Breton
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain po

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

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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

Category:
Escape, Escapism
Author
Andre Breton
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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

Category:
Public
Author
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

Category:
Imagination
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Other Quotes from
Death
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Each instant of life is a step toward death. – Pierre Corneille

Category:
Death

The sole equality on earth is death. – Philip James Bailey

Category:
Death

To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken. – Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Category:
Death

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. – Jean Cocteau

Category:
Death

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Category:
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In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. – Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935

Category:
Courage

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker. – Author Unknown

Category:
Speaking

With virtue you cant be entirely poor; without virtue you cant really be rich. – Chinese Proverb

Category:
Virtue