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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.
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 mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
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Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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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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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.
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