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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 love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
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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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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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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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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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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 attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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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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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
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The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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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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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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