"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."

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Source : "Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939". Book by Georges Bataille, p. 41, 1985.

Andre Breton

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“When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.”
“I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me.”
“Don't stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office would close down.”
“War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.”
“I would be constantly brought up on the carpet by these teachers who were brought up with Abstract Expressionism, saying, "You're too uptight, you're not expressing yourself, why don't you feel freer?" I said, "Well, I don't like that stuff. It means nothing to me."”
“The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.”
“Iâ€™m not a warrior or a goddess,â€ I said at last. Adrian leaned closer. â€œAs far as Iâ€™m concerned, youâ€™re both.”
“Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in life that don't turn out the way you're given the impression that they will. And I think that's all kind of a con. But I think we've probably all been hurt.”

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