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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.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.
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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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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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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
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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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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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Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them.
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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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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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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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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 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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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
Andre Malraux
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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