Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to i… — Quoted

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“Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.”

Andre Breton · Science

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Andre Breton

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

Learning

Andre Breton

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Death

Andre Breton

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

Love

Andre Breton

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.

Dreams