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Andre Breton Quotes: Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.
         

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.


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The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.



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It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.



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