Quote by Andre Breton
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something othe

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

Other quotes by 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

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Imagination
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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not 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

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Perception
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Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten. – Andre Breton

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Learning
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Other Quotes from
Freedom
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We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice. – Friedrich August von Hayek

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Freedom

Havin fun while freedom fightin must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water – which is known to have lithium in it – because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced. – Molly Ivins

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Freedom

Freedom means choosing your burden. – Hephzibah Menuhin

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Freedom

A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their childrens lives cant. – Suzanne Fields

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Freedom

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Start wide, expand further, and never look back. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

Category:
Wisdom

Fantasy is totally wide open all you really have to do is follow the rules youve set. But if youre writing about science, you have to first learn what youre writing about. – Octavia Butler

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Science

If youre lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if youre someone whos got a family thats all fractured and finding it hard to relate, thats a very sad place to be. – Tom Hardy

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relationship

But lo! men have become the tools of their tools. – Henry David Thoreau

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Tools