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All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Andre Malraux

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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
Art Critic
Art Historian
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Film Director
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Journalist
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Georges-André Malraux
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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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Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.
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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
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Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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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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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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