Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose..

To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all s….

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself..

Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur..

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 t….

I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys..

The clouds were disappearing rapidly, leaving the stars to die. The night dried up..

What’s the good of these great fragile fits of enthusiasm, these jaded jumps of joys? We know nothing anymore, but the dead stars; we gaze at their f….

I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from the the ceiling and on the….

Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mi….

The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious….

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….

It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable….

The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into t….

The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random..

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real..

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself..

The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession..

The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb..

There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning - that e….