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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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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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. – Andre Breton

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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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I am now and have always been a stranger to the realm of practical matters. – Anton Chekhov

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I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy. – Juno Temple

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The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. – Frank Barron, Think, November-December 1962

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Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance. – E. T. Bell

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