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Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
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I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
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It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.
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We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.
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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
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A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
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The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
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A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
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Sanity is a cozy lie.
Last Update: 6 February 2023
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