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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.

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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
Art Critic
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Film Director
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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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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.
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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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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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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
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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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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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An art book is a museum without walls.
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Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.
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