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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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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.
Andre Malraux
The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
Andre Malraux
An art book is a museum without walls.
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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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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.
Andre Malraux
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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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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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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One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
Andre Malraux
The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
Andre Malraux
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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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.
Andre Malraux
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Andre Malraux
All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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