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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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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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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 terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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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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In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.
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Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such revelations.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
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Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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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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An art book is a museum without walls.
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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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Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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