Quotes from Andre Breton

I would like to sleep, in order to surrender myself to the dreamers, the way I surrender myself to those who read me with eyes wide open; in order to stop imposing, in this realm, the conscious rhythm of my thought.

Be careful: everything fades, everything vanishes. Something must remain of us…

La vie est autre que ce qu'on écrit.

I know that if I were mad, after several days of confinement I should take advantage of any lapses in my madness to murder anyone, preferably a doctor, who came near me. At least this would permit me, like the violent, to be confined in solitary. Perhaps they'd leave me alone.

Intellectually, true beauty is very difficult to distinguish a priori from the bloom of youth.

It would be hateful to refuse whatever she asks of me, one way or another, for she is so pure, so free of any earthly tie, and cares so little, but so marvelously, for life.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name." "Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself

Uma palavra e tudo está salvo Uma palavra e tudo está perdido.

This is the most beautiful night of all, the lightning filled night: day, compared to it, is night.

I wish I could change my sex as easily as I can change my shirt.

I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green

Elle me dit son nom, celui qu'elle s'est choisi: « Nadja, parce qu'en russe c'est le commencement du mot espérance, et parce que ce n'en n'est que le commencement.

Beauty will be convulsive or not at all.

Vous ne pourrez jamais voir cette étoile comme je la voyais. Vous ne comprenez pas : elle est comme le cÅ"ur d'une fleur sans cÅ"ur.

Today's education is entirely defective to the extent that, calling itself positivist, it begins with abusing the child's trust by presenting as true what is only either a temporary phenomenon or a hypothesis, when it's not a blatant untruth; and to the extent that it prevents children from forming in good time their own opinions by creasing into them certain habits that make their freedom of judgement an illusion

Sur le point de m'en aller, je veux lui poser une question qui résume toutes les autres, une question qu'il n'y a que moi pour poser, sans doute: "Qui êtes-vous?" Et elle, sans hésiter: "Je suis l'âme errante.

Partir pour le pôle intérieur de soi-même.

El abrazo poético, como el abrazo carnal, mientras dura, prohíbe toda caída en la miseria del mundo.

Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale.

Is it true that the beyond, that everything beyond is here in this life? I can't hear you. Who goes there? Is it only me? Is it myself?

The greatest hope, I say, is the one in which all the others are met, is that it is exists for everyone and that for everyone it lasts. That the absolute gift of one being to another, which can exist only in reciprocity, be in the eyes of everyone the only natural and supernatural hanging bridge cast across life itself.

If I were to receive to an anonymous pair of underpants in the mail, it would really spoil my life." --André Breton

Let us not mince words: The marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beauitful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful

I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unexpected violently fortuitous character, and the kind of associations of suspect ideas they provoke.