“(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.” ArtImaginationChildhoodGothicRadcliffe Author:André Breton
“Chère imagination, ce que j'aime surtout en toi, c'est que tu ne pardonnes pas.” ImaginationFascinationPardon Author: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.” FactsImpressions Book:Nadja Source: Nadja
“Nós combatemos sob todas as formas, a indiferença poética, a distração artística, a pesquisa erudita, a especulação pura, e não queremos ter nada em comum com os economizadores de espírito.” ArtSpiritPoetrySurrealism Book:Manifestoes of Surrealism Source: Manifestoes of Surrealism
“[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’ve forgotten.” FateMemoryPessimismSurrealism Book:Nadja Source: Nadja
“The confidences of the mad, I could pass my whole life inspiring them. They are a scrupulously honest tribe, whose innocence has no peer but my own.” MadnessSurrealism Book:Manifestoes of Surrealism Source: Manifestoes of Surrealism
“Wherever and whenever society deems life is worthless, we must see through the eyes of Eros. In the fulness of time, it is up to Eros to restore the balance between life and death that has been tipped in death's favour.” LifeDeathSocietyEros Author:André Breton
“We are in front of a fountain, whose jet she seems to be watching. 'Those are your thoughts and mine. Look where they all start from, how high they reach, and then how it's still prettier when they fall back. And then they dissolve immediately, driven back up with the same strength, then there's that broken spurt again, that fall ... and so on indefinitely.” ThoughtSurrealism Book:Nadja Source: Nadja
“Asimismo, he podido desear ver construir un objeto muy especial que respondiese a una fantasía poética cualquiera.” Madlove Author:André Breton
“Puisque tu existes, comme toi seule sais exister, il n'était peut-être pas très nécessaire que ce livre existât. J'ai cru pouvoir en décider autrement, en souvenir de la conclusion que je voulais lui donner avant de te connaître et que ton irruption dans ma vie n'a pas à mes yeux rendue vaine. Cette conclusion ne prend même son vrai sens et toute sa force qu'à travers toi.” LoveBooksMeta Textualism Book:Nadja Source: Nadja
“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?” WritingLiteratureCreativityWriters Book:Anthology of Black Humor Source: Anthology of Black Humor
“El abrazo poético, como el abrazo carnal, mientras dura, prohíbe toda caída en la miseria del mundo.” PoesíaSalvaciónCarne Author:André Breton
“Le coeur humain, beau comme un sismographe.” FrenchFrench LiteratureCoeurBretonAndré BretonBeau Book:Nadja Source: Nadja
“Let us not mince words: The marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beauitful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful” SurrealismAndré Breton Author:André Breton
“Today, no one is scandalized; society has found ways to nullify the provocative potential of a work of art, adopting before it an attitude of consumerist pleasure.” André Breton Author:André Breton
“I do not admire Flaubert, yet when I am told that by his own admission all he hoped to accomplish in in Salammbo was to 'give the impression of the color yellow' and in Madame Bovary 'to do something that would have the color of those mouldy cornices that harbor wood lice' and that he cared for nothing else, such generally extra-literary preoccupations leave me anything but indifferent.” WritingFlaubertWriting Goals Book:Nadja Source: Nadja
“Engrave this Quote Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.” Surrealismo Book:Surrealist Manifesto Source: Surrealist Manifesto
“L'assenza ben nota d'una qualsiasi frontiera tra la follia e la non-follia non mi dispose ad accordare valore differente alle percezioni e alle idee che si attribuiscono all'una e all'altra. Vi sono sofismi infinitamente più significativi e di più grave portata di quanto non siano le verità meno contestabili: respingerli in quanto sofismi è al tempo stesso privo di grandezza e privo di interesse. Se sofismi erano, almeno è grazie ad essi che ho potuto lanciare a me stesso, a colui che da estreme lontananze viene incontro a me stesso, il grido, sempre patetico, del «Chi vive?» Chi vive? Sei tu, Nadja? È vero che l'al di là, tutto l'al di là è in questa vita? Non ti sento. Chi vive? Sono io solo? Sono io?” RealityTruthSecret Of Life Book:Nadja Source: Nadja