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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

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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
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Paris
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Georges-André Malraux
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Georges-Andre Malraux
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Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.
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One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
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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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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
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A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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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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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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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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