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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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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Death
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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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Humanity
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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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Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are. – Mason Cooley

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I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be. – Billy Connolly

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Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, its always been there. Its been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had. – Janet Jackson

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Imagination

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate. – Donald Trump

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Imagination

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An event described by those to whom it was told by men who did not see it. – Elbert Hubbard

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I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds. – Edward Hopper

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