"The two greatest strokes of luck that can happen to a painter are (1) to be Spanish, (2) to be called Dali"
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"Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums."
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"I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed."
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"Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties."
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"I do not believe in my death."
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"The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret."
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"Nothing proves the truth of surrealism so much as photography. The Zeiss lens has unexpected faculties of surprise!"
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"Just as I am astonished that a bank clerk never eats a cheque, so too am I astonished that no painter before me ever thought of painting a soft watch."
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"I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it."
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"I will be sof brief, I have already finished."
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"Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire."
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"Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dali."
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"The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad."
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"I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties."
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"The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings."
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"I don't take drugs: I am drugs."
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"[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man."
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"Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously."
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"I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work."
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"We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right."
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