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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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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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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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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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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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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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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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