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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
Art Critic
Art Historian
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Film Director
Film Editor
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Georges-André Malraux
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Georges-Andre Malraux
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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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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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term masterpiece to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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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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History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
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