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Children set off each day without a worry in the world. Everything is near at hand; the worst material conditions are fine. The woods are white or black, one will never sleep.

— André Breton Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (1924)

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Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or not at all.

Breton's novel Nadja (1928)

Under his [ Marc Chagall ] sole impulse metaphor made its triumphal entry into modern painting.

It is not the fear of madness which will oblige us to leave the flag of imagination furled.

Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (1924)

La beauté sera CONVULSIVE ou ne sera pas.

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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