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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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 terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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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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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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You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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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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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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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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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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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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