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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
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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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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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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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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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.
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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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