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Quote by Andre Breton
To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it w

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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Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a certain state of need and can push man to frightful revolts. – 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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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

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Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean. – Gary Ross

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Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind. – Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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I think its fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With True Blood, youre not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters. – Deborah Ann Woll

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Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. – Carl Jung

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