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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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An art book is a museum without walls.
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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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 only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
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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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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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