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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
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Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb.
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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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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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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
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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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The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
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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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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.
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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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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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