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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
Art Critic
Art Historian
Author
Film Director
Film Editor
Journalist
Novelist
Politician
Screenwriter
Writer
Paris
France
Georges-André Malraux
Andre Malraux
Georges-Andre Malraux
Century
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Twenty
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Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.
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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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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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