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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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An art book is a museum without walls.
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Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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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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Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.
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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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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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You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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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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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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Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.
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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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