From the moment I arrived in Cadaqués [Summer of 1929] I was assailed by a resurgence of my childhood period. The six years of secondary school, the … - Salvador Dalí

Koliko će biti potrebno revolucija, koliko ratova da bismo se vratili onoj izuzetno reakcionarnoj istini da je ’strogost’ prvi uslov svake hijerarhije, i da je stega ustvari kalup oblika.

La gente debería verse más como sus retratos y menos como en la vida real

I categorically refused to consider the surrealists as just another literary and artistic group. I believed they were capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world'. I was going to become the Nietzsche of the irrational. I, the obsessed rationalist, was the only one who knew what I wanted: I was not going to submit to irrationality for its own sake, to the narcissist and passive irrationality others practiced. I would do completely the opposite. I would fight for the 'conquest of the irrational'. In the meantime my friends would let themselves be overwhelmed by the irrational, succumbing, like so many others, Nietzsche included, to that romantic weakness.