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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.
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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ it was that Leviathan, the Nation.
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In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.
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As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.
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The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.
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A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
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Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
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