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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
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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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A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term masterpiece to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.
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