The Good Quote
Open menu
Quotes
Authors
Topics
More
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
Home
Authors
Andre Breton
French
Poet
About the author
Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
Andre Breton,
French
Poet
#Will
#Art
#Nothing
#Science
#Desire
#Possession
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
Andre Breton,
French
Poet
#Life
#Rules
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
Andre Breton,
French
Poet
#Life
#Feeling
#Freedom
#Sense
Words make love with one another.
Andre Breton,
French
Poet
#Love
#Words
What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.
Andre Breton,
French
Poet
#Worth
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
Andre Breton,
French
Poet
#Nothing
#Liberty
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
Andre Breton,
French
Poet
#Writing
#Nature
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Andre Breton,
French
Poet
#Life
#Heart
#Name
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.
Andre Breton,
French
Poet
#Love
It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
Andre Breton,
French
Poet
#Living
#Existence
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
Andre Breton,
French
Poet
#Love
#State
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
Andre Breton,
French
Poet
#Dreams
#Man
#Memory
#Events
#Importance
#Waking
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.
Andre Breton,
French
Poet
#Life
#Death
#Past
#Mind
#Future
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
Andre Breton,
French
Poet
#Man
#Virtue
#Vice
#Talent
#Genius
Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
Andre Breton,
French
Poet
#Will
#Beauty
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
Andre Breton,
French
Poet
#Illusion
#Learning