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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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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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In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
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Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.
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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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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
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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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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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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 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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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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