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A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.
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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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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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No one can endure his own solitude.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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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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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
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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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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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Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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