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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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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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In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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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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Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.
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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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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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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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An art book is a museum without walls.
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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 truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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