French - Poet | February 18, 1896 - September 28, 1966
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Andre Breton
LoveYourselfLove IsSomeoneYou
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
LifeLoveHeartNameMy LifeCannot
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
DangerousLibertyNothingTakeWhich
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
LoveMePlaceEverythingAboveMost
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
RulesExistVainAnsweringSimply
Words make love with one another.
LoveWordsMakeAnother
What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.
WorthFindOthersMoreOneselfThan
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.
LifeFuturePastDeathMindBelieve
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
ScienceArtDesireNothingWill
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.
DreamsManMemoryWayMoreEvents
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
NatureWiseWritingMasterpieceArts
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.
LifeFreedomMomentFeelingNew
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