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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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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 ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history 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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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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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 we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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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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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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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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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 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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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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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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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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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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