155 Quotes by André Breton

...the blackboard which was to serve for demonstrations was represented by a very elegant young priest who I suppose celebrated the law of falling bodies as a mass is celebrated.

How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.

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

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.

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.

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.

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

The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly

The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.