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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.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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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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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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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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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb.
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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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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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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 next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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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's no such thing as a grown up person.
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