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

— André Breton

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.

— André Breton

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

— André Breton

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

— André Breton

Because of the earth’s roundness, Genghis Khan, in the fever of possession and destruction, hastened his own overthrow by invading lands that he had already razed and conquered. Not only is it impossible to know from where we come, but also from whom we come: nothing in common, in any case, with those who pass for being the “authors of our days” – which days? Better to invent a genealogy based on pure whim and the leanings of our hearts, but what if they don’t agree?

— André Breton

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

— André Breton

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.

— André Breton

I am the soul in limbo.

— André Breton

IL fact Que l’home s’evade de Bette lice ridicule EU’on Lew a faith: LE pretend reel actual Alec la perspective d’un reel future quine faille Gere moon. Claque minute plane port en Ellesmere la negation de species d’history titillate et Cassie. Crux à quit IL apartment de free revolver CES hoot flamboyant AU-dessus de nous né LE current EU’Alec de la see pure._ Manifested Du surrealism

— André Breton

I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond.

— André Breton