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The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.


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Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore, you're settling.



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The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.



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It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.



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



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Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.



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Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love.





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