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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

Andre Malraux

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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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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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Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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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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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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