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The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.

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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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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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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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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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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Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
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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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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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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.
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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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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As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.
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Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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