“Beloved imagination, what I most like in you is your unsparing quality. There remains madness, 'the madness that one locks up', as it has aptly been described. That madness or another..”

Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (Manifesto of Surrealism; 1924)

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French writer 1896–1966

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