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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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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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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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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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A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
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The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
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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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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.
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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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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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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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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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