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A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows


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We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.



Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.

Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.



To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.



Each thing we see hides something else we want to see.

Each thing we see hides something else we want to see.



People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.



Nothing is confused except the mind.

Nothing is confused except the mind.



Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.



If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.

If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.



The purpose of art is mystery.

The purpose of art is mystery.



Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well.





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This worship of Humanity, with its rituals of Liberty and Equality, always struck me as like being a revival of the ancient cults, in which animals were gods or the gods bore the heads of animals.

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O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.

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