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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.
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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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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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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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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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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.
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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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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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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ it was that Leviathan, the Nation.
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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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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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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 truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
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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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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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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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