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 event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work.

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

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

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.

Trust in the inexhaustible character of the murmur.

...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.

If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.