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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Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a certain state of need and can push man to frightful revolts. – Andre Breton

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Surrealism
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Natures chief masterpiece is writing well. – Andre Breton

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Nature
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To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize. – Andre Breton

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People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after. – Oliver Goldsmith

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

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

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Folks dont like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. Youre not gonna change any of them by talking right, theyve got to want to learn themselves, and when they dont want to learn theres nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language. – Harper Lee

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