Quotes & anectdotes from
the wise,
the foolish,
the courageous &
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Andre Breton Novelist

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: France
  • Born: Feb 19, 1896
  • Died: Sep 28, 1966

André Breton was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism".

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

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

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.