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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
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Paris
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Georges-André Malraux
Andre Malraux
Georges-Andre Malraux
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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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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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
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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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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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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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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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The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
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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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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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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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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
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