Quote by Andre Breton
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties a

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. – Andre Breton

Other quotes by Andre Breton

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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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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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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Other Quotes from
Liberty
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Liberty has no crueler enemy than license. – Proverb

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Liberty

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt. – John Philpot Curran

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Liberty

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke

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Liberty

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. – Edmund Burke

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Liberty

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It isnt tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying its separating himself from all the others. – Helen Rowland

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Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage. – Mason Cooley

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The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. – Kin Hubbard

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Entertainment

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success. – Ambrose Bierce

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