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Quote of André Breton - It is perhaps childhood that comes...


Biography - André Breton :

French writer and poet.
Born: 1896 - Died: 1966
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

It is perhaps childhood that comes closest to one's 'real life'.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
C'est peut-être l'enfance qui approche le plus de la « vraie vie ».

German
Die Kindheit nähert uns vielleicht am meisten dem „wahren Leben“.




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See also...



All grown-ups were once children (but only few of them remember it).




Quotes for: life


Quotes

Quotes about life:


As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





There is more to life than increasing its speed.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.











Quotes for: childhood


Quotes

Quotes about childhood:


Wisdom leads us back to childhood.





Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.





Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.





The first sigh of childhood is for liberty.





We are of our childhood as we are from a country.





The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.











Quotes

André Breton also said...


One word and all is saved
One word and all is lost.






Words make love.





Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.





All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.





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.





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












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