André Breton Quotes

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

I am the soul in limbo.

The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.

It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.

Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.

May night continue to fall upon the orchestra

Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.

The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

A word and everything is saved.A word and all is lost.

They rarely discovered a star red as a distant crime or a star-fish.

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

(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.

Time is a tease

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

Tell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you are.

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.