In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again. – Andre Breton
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. – Andre Breton
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
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
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man–yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it. – Marcus Antonius
Coming through the fire and through the storm of life with a strong man, my fiance Ashanti, whom Ive been dating for eight months and two wonderful children beside me, Im just so happy that I have been able to maintain my integrity and get to where I am today with the right energy around me. – Angie Stone