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Quote by Andre Breton
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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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. – Andre Breton

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Science
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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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Secrets
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He teaches me to be good that does me good. – Thomas Fuller

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It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. – Eric Hoffer

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The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character. – George Eliot

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An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching. – Proverb

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Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action. – Dorothy Day

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