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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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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Film Director
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One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
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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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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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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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Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such revelations.
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The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
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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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The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is 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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A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.
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An art book is a museum without walls.
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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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