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André Breton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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a site dedicated to the study of andre breton part of the Ontological Museum of the International Post-Dogmatist Group ... ; Manifestoes of Surrealism ; Andre Breton Helen R. Lane (Translator) Richard Seaver (Translator)
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André Breton was born in Tinchebray (Orne) as the son of a shopkeeper. He spent his childhood on the Brittany coats and started to write early poems - he met the poet Paul Valéry while still young. Breton studied medicine and later psychiatry, and met also in 1921 Freud in Vienna.
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Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful. anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful. Andre Breton, 1924...
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Beloved imagination, what I most like in you is your unsparing quality. ... It is not the fear of madness which will oblige us to leave the flag of imagination furled. ... On the bridge the dew with the head of a tabby cat lulls itself to sleep. (ANDRÉ BRETON)
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1.1 Le Manifeste du Surréalisme (Manifesto of Surrealism; 1924) ... 3 External links ... André Breton (19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer, poet and theorist of Surrealism.
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