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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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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.
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Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
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The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
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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 true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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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
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Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ it was that Leviathan, the Nation.
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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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Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.
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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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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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