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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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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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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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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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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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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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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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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 only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
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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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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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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 the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
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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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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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