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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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