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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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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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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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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.
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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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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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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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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 terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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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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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.
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