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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.
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 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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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
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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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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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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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The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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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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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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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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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 thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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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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An art book is a museum without walls.
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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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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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