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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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Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
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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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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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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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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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In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
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An art book is a museum without walls.
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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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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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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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To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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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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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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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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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
Andre Malraux
Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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