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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.
Andre Malraux
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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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Georges-André Malraux
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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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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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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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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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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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 only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
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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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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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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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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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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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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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