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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
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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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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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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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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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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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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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 next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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An art book is a museum without walls.
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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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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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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 mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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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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Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb.
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Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
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