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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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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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In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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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 present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such revelations.
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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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The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
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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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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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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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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
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If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term masterpiece to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.
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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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To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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