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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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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.
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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
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The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call 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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Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.
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In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.
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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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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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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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To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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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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