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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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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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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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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.
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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 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 terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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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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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 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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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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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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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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