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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. – Andre Breton

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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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Andre Breton
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Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express — verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner — the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern. – Andre Breton

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Surrealism
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Precept guides, but example draws. – Proverb

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Nothing preaches better than the act. – Benjamin Franklin

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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We are too quick to imitate depraved examples. – Juvenal

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