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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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A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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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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To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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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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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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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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