Katy Perry - Quotes

 I've lived such a great, fantastic life already, but there's still so much more. 

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Constantin Brancusi - Quotes

 When we are no longer children we are already dead 

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Arthur Machen - Quotes

 We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils. 

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Michael Richardson - Quotes

 Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by which to explore reality itself. 

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Michel Foucault - Quotes

 The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library. 

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Robert Musil - Quotes

 Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can 

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Michael Richardson - Quotes

 Refusing what Adorno called that 'comfort in the uncomfortable' taken by the fantastic, surrealism seeks to reintegrate man into the universe. 

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Michael Richardson - Quotes

 The fantastic is in complicity with the realist model, in the claims that realism makes to represent the true face of reality. It points to the gaps and inadequacies of realism, but does not question the legitimacy of its claims to represent reality. The concept of  

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Arthur Rimbaud - Quotes

 In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.

 

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Michael Richardson - Quotes

 The shifting sands of the world... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality actually is. Unlike fabulists of whatever hue, there is a materiality in surrealist writing that resolutely keeps it, one might say, 'down to earth'. 

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Charles Nodier - Quotes

 But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.

 

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