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“A game: say something. Close your eyes and say something. Anything, a number, a name. Like this (she closes her eyes): Two, two what? Two women. What do they look like? Wearing black. Where are they? In a park. . . . And then, what are they doing? Try it, it's so easy, why don't you want to play? You know, that's how I talk to myself when I'm alone, I tell myself all kinds of stories. And not only silly stories: actually, I live this way altogether.”
― Andre Breton, Nadja

“Beauty is like a train that ceaselessly roars out of the Gare de Lyon and which I know will never leave, which has not left. It consists of jolts and shocks, many of which do not have much importance, but which we know are destined to produce one Shock, which does...The human heart, beautiful as a seismograph...Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all.”
― Andre Breton, Nadja

“Words make love with one another.”
― Andre Breton

“The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows”
― Andre Breton

“Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.”
― Andre Breton, Nadja

“May night continue to fall upon the orchestra”
― Andre Breton

“Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.”
― André Breton, Anthology of Black Humor

“Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.”
― André Breton, Anthology of Black Humor

“Tell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you are.”
― Andre Breton

“The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly”
― andre breton

“The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up.”
― Andre Breton, Magnetic Fields

“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
― André Breton, What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings

“The imaginary is what tends to become real.”
― André Breton

“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”
― Leonard Cohen

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
― Leonard Cohen

“Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care”
― Leonard Cohen

“Never make a decision when you need to pee.”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

“I have tried in my way to be free.”
― Leonard Cohen

“ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
― Henry Miller

“Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.”
― Henry Miller

“Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.”
― Henry Miller

“There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy”
― Henry Miller

“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
― Henry Miller

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche