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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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Georges-André Malraux
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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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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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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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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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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them.
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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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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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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As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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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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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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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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In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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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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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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