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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 attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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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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Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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