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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.

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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
Art Critic
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Film Director
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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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Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.
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The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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