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June 23, 2020

Name: André Breton
Born: 02/18/1896
Died: 09/28/1966 (70 years old)
Occupation: Writer

André Robert Breton (French:[ɑ̃dʁe ʁɔbɛʁ bʁətɔ̃]; 18 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the co-founder, leader, principal theorist and chief apologist of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto (Manifeste du surréalisme) of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as “pure psychic automatism”.

Birth Name: André Robert Breton

Genre: Histories, poetry, essays

Birth Place: Tinchebray, Orne, France

Death Place: Paris, France

Source: Wikipedia

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Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
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All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Andre Breton

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
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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.
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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.
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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
Andre Breton