What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

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

Words make love with one another.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

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

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

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.

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

Every time you date someone with an issue that you have to work to ignore youre settling.

The eye is not open when it is limited to the passive role of a mirror... if it has only the capacity to reflect.

Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.

The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly.

The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.

Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a certain state of need and can push man to frightful revolts.

Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society.

Surrealism is based on the belief in the omnipotence of dreams, in the undirected play of thought.

If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.

The situation in Iraq will be long, it will be expensive and it will be difficult. But in the end, Iraq will very much be worth it.

I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does.

I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.

A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

That would be getting up at 5 am... I don't understand why film's shoot such brutal hours. I think it'd be worth it to not be so strictly cost-effective and have an 8 hour day. The film's would benefit in the end.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

No I haven't and all I can say is that if it's cost $600,000, I hope we get $600,000 worth of value out of it.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.