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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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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

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Escape, Escapism
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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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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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The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability. – Thomas Huxley

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Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. – Percival Lowell

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A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. – Catherine the Great

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Imagination

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did. – Eartha Kitt

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Imagination

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