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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
Art Critic
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Film Director
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Georges-André Malraux
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.
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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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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.
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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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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The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
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Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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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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