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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 artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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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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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
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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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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.
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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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Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
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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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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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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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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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