Nadja

Book by André Breton · 7 quotes · Surrealism, André Breton, Beau

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“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.”

Facts Impressions

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“[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.”

Fate Memory Pessimism Surrealism

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“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.”

Thought Surrealism

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“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.”

Love Books Meta Textualism

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“Le coeur humain, beau comme un sismographe.”

French French Literature Coeur Breton André Breton Beau

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“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.”

Writing Flaubert Writing Goals

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“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?”

Reality Truth Secret Of Life

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