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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
Art Critic
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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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Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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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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In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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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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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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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 next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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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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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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An art book is a museum without walls.
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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