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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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More quotes by Andre Malraux
One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
Andre Malraux
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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In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
Andre Malraux
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
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In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
Andre Malraux
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.
Andre Malraux
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
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To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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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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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
Andre Malraux
The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
Andre Malraux
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.
Andre Malraux
The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such revelations.
Andre Malraux
He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
Andre Malraux
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.
Andre Malraux
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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