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

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 mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a certain state of need and can push man to frightful revolts.

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

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

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

Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize.