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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Natures chief masterpie

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

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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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The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations. – Andre Breton

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Public
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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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No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. – William Howard Taft

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The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels. – Rupert Sheldrake

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Nature

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. – Henry David Thoreau

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Nature

All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws. – John Coltrane

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