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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
Art Historian
Author
Film Director
Film Editor
Journalist
Novelist
Politician
Screenwriter
Writer
Paris
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Georges-André Malraux
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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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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History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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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 ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.
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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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