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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.

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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
Art Critic
Art Historian
Author
Film Director
Film Editor
Journalist
Novelist
Politician
Screenwriter
Writer
Paris
France
Georges-André Malraux
Andre Malraux
Georges-Andre Malraux
Gothic
Seldom
Broken
Head
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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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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 next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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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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A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
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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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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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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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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.
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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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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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