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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
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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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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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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